Word: schoolboys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like many another schoolboy, Giuseppe Conte, 16, a sophomore at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci High School, felt misunderstood. He was sure, for instance, that his math teacher had it in for him. He was always prepared, Giuseppe assured his parents, but Professor Renzo Modugno, a crippled war veteran, twisted the questions so he couldn't possibly answer. Last week, when the semester's grades were announced, Giuseppe heard that he had flunked his math. To make matters worse, Professor Modugno humiliated him by announcing that even the failing grade was higher than he deserved. Giuseppe walked...
...Governor Dennis J. Roberts signed a proclamation gratefully accepting 14,000 cherry-tree seeds from the Japanese government in commemoration of Rhode Islander Oliver Hazard Perry's historic trip to Japan 100 years ago. Then the embarrassed Statehouse was briefed on a few facts that every schoolboy should know: 1) Oliver, hero of the Battle of Lake Erie, was already dead 100 years ago; 2) his brother, Commodore Matthew Perry, made the historic trip! 3) Matthew went ashore on July...
...Kimathi, 30, is a stocky Kikuyu with a ragged black beard, a scar on his left cheek, and the middle finger missing from his huge left hand. He was once a clerk for Kenya's Shell Oil Co.; before that, he taught school. Last month a terrified African schoolboy, hiding in the rhino-haunted woods near famed Treetops Hotel,* saw his old teacher hack off the head of a Kikuyu forest guard with a panga knife. Kimathi tied the severed head to his belt, then loped off into the jungle at the head of his band...
...Yardling squash team, led by Captain Pete Milton, travels to Exeter this afternoon to take on one of the best schoolboy teams in the East...
Morocco. "I spent five years in Morocco from 1941-1945 . . . President Roosevelt came to the Casablanca conference in January 1943, and with the recklessness of a schoolboy told the Sultan he should assert his independence of the French . . . This was like throwing a Roman candle into a barrel of gasoline." Childs's recommendation: the U.S. should abandon its "Alice in Wonderland policy," which is undermining the French administration. Instead, the U.S. should promote "greater liberty for the Moroccans, within the framework of the French Union, without inciting the Moroccans to open rebellion, which has only been to the advantage...