Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kensett, Ark., happens to be the mother of another warbler: Cher. When Mom took the mike at a West Hollywood nightspot, Studio One, last week, Cher and her sister, Actress Georganne LaPiere, were in the audience cheering wildly. For Holt, the stint was actually a refrain. As a youngster, she used to hit the notes on the radio and in saloons across the West. This time around, Holt has hopes of cutting an album and making it big. Says she: "I sound better on tape than in person...
...Bird Johnson. Costanza's role: Amelia Bloomer, the 19th century suffragist who, by defending women's pantaloons, gave bloomers their name. Costanza, whose office has just been moved to the White House basement, flashed a hand-lettered sign: WANTED: OFFICE SPACE. During rehearsal she said to the youngster playing Amy Carter, "I've just decided your tree house will make a marvelous office for me. I can lower a tin cup and get messages...
...Father told them the second part of the story, about how Moroni was sent from God to visit a youngster named Joseph Smith in upstate New York, about how Smith dug up the plates and began a rapidly growing and often persecuted religion, about how Smith led his Mormons west, settled in Nauvoo, Illinois, was shot and killed near there, and about how Brigham Young took over and ultimately led the Mormons to Salt Lake City...
...stay in foster care a long time have difficulty coping with a double set of parents. For this reason, some experts have recommended that foster parents be allowed to bar visits by real parents. But, warn Fanshel and Shinn, a "cavalier readiness" to drum natural parents out of a youngster's life is both unfair to them and dangerous to the child...
...Youths are taught that Abraham did not enter the Promised Land be cause of a covenant with God but because of a drought in Ur. Instead of the bar mitzvah (son of the commandments) rite, the polydox now use the baal mitzvah (master of the commandments), signifying that a youngster is able to decide for himself what...