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...When Alonzo Crim, 55, took over as superintendent of Atlanta's schools in 1973, the first year that a court-ordered desegregation program went into effect, only 30% of students were reading at the national norm. Says Crim: "We had to focus on reading. Handling the language arts is perhaps the most fundamental building block to the whole educational program. If you can't read, write, speak and listen, you won't do anything else well." In June, Crim announced that the average student in kindergarten through tenth grade was reading at the national level; math achievement...
...baby with just the right expression and gesture." The editors' choice: six-month-old Lisa Harap of Queens Village, N.Y., Munro's "wise" baby. Lisa becomes the youngest identifiable living person ever to appear on TIME's cover (the oldest: 96-year-old Football Coach Amos Alonzo Stagg...
...turned to Hennessy, and after four whirlwind days of talks they agreed to merge. Agee got a promise that he would be president of Allied, but his future duties were not settled. Shortly after the merger was officially approved by stockholders a fortnight ago, Hennessy forced the resignation of Alonzo McDonald, who had been Agee's second in command at Bendix. Then Hennessy told Agee that Allied was looking for someone else to be chief operating officer, the second-ranking post, after chief executive...
...work and life could scarcely be thought of separately. He died last week at 69 from a heart attack, but really a mix of illnesses that he had been fighting for three years (heroically, said his doctor), all the while he was pursuing Pop Warner and Amos Alonzo Stagg right up to his 323rd victory in the Liberty Bowl...
...some dealers were understandably eager last week to see the end of their De Loreans, whatever the price. "We've taken quite a beating with them," says Patrick Alonzo of Stephens Chevrolet in New Orleans. "I want them to go now."-By John S. DeMott. Reported by Bonnie Angelo/London and Peter Stoler/New York