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Every morning, the big yellow school bus picks up Susanne Slay, 8, at her home in suburban Crestwood near St. Louis. The bright second-grader studies hard, plays hard, tackles one hour of homework each night. Why is this surprising? The daughter of a sales engineer, Susanne is a victim of cerebral palsy, wears heavy braces on both legs...
With Mustard. In Bushy Park, Middlesex, England, Billy Hudgins, 11, a sixth-grader in a U.S. Air Force elementary school, asked to write a theme on space travel, reckoned out the gastronomic requirements of an interplanetary junket: "584 ham sandwiches, 764 Coca-Colas and 407 cakes and pies...
...makeup is needed if an eighth-grader starts at once on the "solids" (English, history, math, science, foreign language), and especially on English composition. English is the key to college work; by 1970 an estimated one-fourth of applicants may be rejected because they get so little of it. This is why the most important college board exam today is the verbal aptitude test (scored from 200 to 800). Falling much below 500 is bad news-"infant damnation," cracks one educator...
...issued sporadically from 3124 Woodley Road, N.W., and sent to friends and relatives. The younger two of Reston's three sons-Richard, 22, who was graduated last month from the University of Wisconsin, Jim, 18, a freshman at the University of North Carolina, and Tommy, 13, an eighth-grader at Washington's Gordon Junior High School-have served as editors. The paper's policy is firm. Warned Editor Jim several years ago: "The editor has no time for crackpots, and will not publish political propaganda for anybody...
...college-Cornell University. For one thing, Ezra is the namesake and great-great-great grandson of the man who founded Cornell in 1865. For another, Ezra last week learned officially that he will be a life trustee of the university. He is eleven and a sixth-grader...