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...right and what was wrong," says First Grade Teacher Ruth Barlow, since the kiddy cops handed out speeding tickets with Ribicoffan severity ("usually to the same youngsters," says Mrs. Barlow). Transgressors were tried by a "judge" sitting atop teacher's desk and wearing teacher's sweater backward as a robe. By the first graduation exercises, even kids once addicted to pedaling along at dizzy speeds were reformed enough to win coveted safety certificates. If the lessons stick with the children through the ten years or so before they can drive, the scheme promises to be a big success...
...Sojourner on Earth. The 2nd century father, Tatian, attacked the Greeks' cyclical conception of immortality, which assumed the pre-existence of the soul, with life extending into eternity, backward as well as forward. Tatian held that the soul is as mortal as the body, but that it can be saved by God. Immortality is not the Christian hope, said Tatian, but "life eternal"-which means living in God. And God grants this only to those who do not grasp for immortality, but submit to death. "Die to the world and repudiate its madness. Live to God, take hold...
...rays. Perhaps best known is his airline routine ("Coffee, tea or milk?" chirps the stewardess, although the wing is on fire); because of the recent disasters, the sketch has been retired, but many airlines still use the record during stewardess training. Berman builds his long routines forward and backward from initial jokes, as in his newest piece, which grew around a forlorn conventioner who is afraid that if he loses his name badge, no one will talk...
...Equally weighty advice came from the Pentagon, whose planners found the prospects dismaying. With no seaport, jet airfields or railroad, with only 500 miles of all-weather roads (the main road between Vientiane and the outside world runs along the Mekong, is under water six months of the year), backward Laos is an ideal buffer zone but a terrible battleground...
...have plenty of money, room, and even its courses do not smack too much of party dogmatism. But Russia has a long way to go before it can compete equally with the U.S., Britain or France as first choice in the contest for the best young minds of the backward parts of the world...