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In 1974 a school ran substantially on jobs done by its own pupils, and the list is startling when it is written down.
A child stopped traffic at…
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In 1975 summer league practice was in the water by six in the morning, twice a day, because those were the hours the pool was not open to…
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Organised youth baseball was at its absolute peak in the late nineteen-sixties. Nearly every American town had a programme, the fields were busy every evening from spring to…
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Two weeks, no phone calls, and a tower somebody built last summer. Here are twelve.
1. You Were Put on a Bus and Nobody Heard From You for…
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The object itself is the thing that stops people. A shaft about a foot long, a set of plastic fins at one end for stability, and at the…
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There was a specific phrase for it, and anybody who was a child in America in that period knew whether or not it applied to them. A latchkey…