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...quiet suburban schools, and that these schools, once the very symbols of the best the U.S. could do for its children, are also suffering from a profound malaise. For the 55% or so of American teen-agers who do not go on to college, high school is the apex of their formal educational career; they will prosper or join the ranks of the unemployed largely on the basis of what the schools teach them...
...5UPER APEX Passenger specifies flight and date, but must buy ticket 45 days before departure and spend 14 to 45 days at destination...
...than that the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board has approved them for varied experimental periods. Indeed, bargain fares between New York and London are still proliferating. Last week President Carter overturned a decision of the CAB and in effect allowed British Airways and other airlines to begin immediately offering "Super APEX" fares ($290 round trip, reserved seats bought 45 days in advance...
...only 2½% by the end of 1978. Unemployment has reached a postwar high of 1.6 million and is still expanding, and even an inflation rate of 12% would be ruinous over the long term. If market prices were adjusted for the withering effects of inflation since the 1972 apex, the FT index would have had to hit 1,200 to set a new record...
Paxton's style guarantees the sincerity of his commitment. With a carefully distilled mixture of honesty and bitterness, Paxton reaches his apex in "White Bones of Allende." As he blames United States intervention for the collapse of Allende's government, he aims his harpoon at Kissinger's global politics of amorality...