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...strike in the past 358 years, not one, can claim to be as ludicrous as the current work stoppages bedeviling professional sports. In baseball and hockey, multimillionaire owners have been pleading impending poverty. On the other side, players, some of whom are also multimillionaires, stamp their size 13s and demand a bigger share of the pie. It's the rich vs. the megarich in a spectacle almost as distasteful to watch as the intramurals among the wackos of the House of Windsor. If there are principles involved, and both sides swear there are, they do not make sense to anyone...
This year the 13s are back. The Black Knights edged Dartmouth last week...
...adults knew the function of the placenta. Only 18% of 17s knew that nuclei are more dense than the rest of the atom; 93% thought that metal cans for food are made chiefly of tin." Among the Pleasant: "Ninety-two percent of nines and 98% of 13s know that a human baby comes from its mother's body. Seventy-eight percent of nines feel there must be a reason why a rubbed balloon sticks to the wall." As if anxious to grasp at any sign of U.S. educational maturity, Merrill also noted: "Eighty-nine percent of 17s knew that...
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...them white, were hard and gutter-wise: girls who jiggled provocatively in too-tight sweaters, boys who slouched about in stovepipe jeans. Braithwaite's story of eventual victory over their ignorance-and their casually vicious race bigotry-is warmly told in To Sir, with Love (The Bodley Head; 13s. 6d.). By last week his publishers had printed 10,000 copies, and ex-Teacher Braithwaite (he is now a children's officer for the London social welfare department) was a.moderate literary sensation...