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...fascinating fact that there now are exactly 102 major-league professional sports teams in the U.S. The boom in pro sports may be great stuff for the ticket printers, pennant makers and hot-dog vendors, but it is pretty baffling to most ordinary people. Just who are the Anaheim Amigos and the Seattle Supersonics?* And what are the Los Angeles Kings doing on top of the National Hockey League...
...teams, put them in a ballpark that has the shallowest centerfield in the American League, give them wind at their backs, and let them flail away madly for 15 innings. Then try to explain why the final score at last week's annual All-Star game in Anaheim, Calif., was National League 2, American League...
...teachers at Anaheim permit classroom use of four-letter words in order to strip them of their forbidden-thrill value. But most of the time, the language in the more advanced sex-education classes is straightforward and clinical, with the result that parents are sometimes staggered by breakfast-table mentions of seminal emissions or clitoral excitation. However startling, such language is a vast improvement over the flights of icky imagery about the "mystery of growth" and the "joyous miracle of motherhood" that can still be heard from time to time...
...moral direction. "Adults sure have different goals," observed one New York teen-ager in a recent survey. "They don't look at sex education as teaching us to understand sex. They look at it as a way of controlling our morals." And a lot of them do. Says Anaheim School Superintendent Paul Cook: "As soon as you start to lecture the kids, they turn you off. They just won't listen to people telling them what to do. We try to just give them the objective facts and tell them the decision is up to them...
...objective facts" include consequences. Despite Superintendent Cook's well-taken strictures against moralizing, the shapers of the Anaheim program were obviously interested in morality and social values. Cook, who used to teach the course himself, tells how it tries to prepare both sexes for the "traps" of dating. The message to the boys is that they need not make a pass at a girl to prove themselves masculine, and to the girls that they need not say yes to remain popular. Says Cook: "We try to give them answers for all the old con games." Without explicit moralizing...