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...meet King's cap, Lannon said the system would have to close four schools. Close elementary libraries. Axe elementary science programs. Increase class size 15 per cent. Lay off 210 staff. Move the central office to a new, smaller home. Stop sabbatical leaves for teachers. End the cultural resources program. Halt elementary athletics. Close down the bilingual summer school, the evening program, and adult diploma classes. Stop teaching foreign languages at the elementary schools. And stop all raises of any sort for teachers...
...Axe Falls...
...both cruel and futile. It is cruel to propose credit controls and budget cuts aimed at bringing down prices by throwing more Americans out of work. The program is doubly cruel because the budget will hit those who are already victims of hard times. Expenditures targeted for the axe include energy assistance for the poor, health care money for children, aid to the cities, revenue sharing--in great part educational funds--for states, cost-of-living adjustments for food-stamp recipients, and spending for public works and youth job programs. The Pentagon is dodging serious scrutiny...
Just four months before an agent of Joseph Stalin's secret police shattered his skull with an alpine axe in 1940, Bolshevik Revolutionary Leader Leon Trotsky sold his confidential correspondence to Harvard for $10,000. Last week the university's Houghton Library unveiled it. Included were Trotsky's own copies of 17,500 letters written by him and to him from 1927 to 1940, and kept under wraps ever since at Trotsky's own insistence, in order to protect his correspondents from Stalin's possible retribution...
...AMERICAN BAR where they play real rock'n' roll, where the guitarist takes his axe to his groin, wringing out the sound that bends and twists his whole body, jitters his knees and pumps all the life up through his head where it spatters out to the crowd in beads of sweat. The sweat that salts the beers and the crowd sucks in every guitar lick. Yes, yes, yes, they want more. They are jumping and rocking their seats, pounding the table and singing out of key, and they don't want to do anything in the world but listen...