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...ejector seats blasted from burning planes, a superheated machine gun opened fire spontaneously, missiles detonated. "It was pure hell," said Chief Warrant Officer Bob Henderson, "just ungodly." Rob Burton, 21, one of the fire fighters, recalled: "The first explosion knocked down two whole hose teams." Added fellow Fireman Bob Barton: "There were some of us buried under wreckage. We went up with our hose but lost pressure." Another seaman remembered the shock of seeing casualties brought below deck from the holocaust: "My chief was on the first load from the elevator. He was missing...
...Diego. California's second largest city has a Christian school district with no fewer than two high schools, two junior highs, five elementary schools, and a budget of $4.4 million raised from tuition and private gifts. Last year, after 14 years as a public schoolteacher, Tom Barton, 41, an ex-Marine and graduate of Texas Christian University, took on the principalship of San Diego's flagship, Christian High, which has been running for 16 years. Bar ton was deeply concerned about public school vandalism, teen-age drinking, cheating and classroom chaos. Says he: "When you have public schoolteachers...
...Barton's praise is all the more remarkable in view of the fact that he was fired by the school board, which includes the district's founding pastor, Tim LaHaye, in January. The sacking followed a series of disputes about school policy that, in Barton's view, illustrate the dark side of the Christian school movement. First there was the narrowness of the curriculum. Says Barton: "Almost all authors considered humanists-Emerson, Thoreau, even Shakespeare-are often eliminated wholesale from the curriculum at many schools." When Barton opposed sending the school band to a political rally...
...sore one, but it hadn't really sharpened. There wasn't something--such as the Selma march--to gather around," Harwood, recalls. Even if the rising concern with civil rights ignited a dialogue among students infused with firm political convictions, wide segments of Harvard remained undented, James H. Barton '56 mentions the extreme of his own apathy, "You've heard of the 1954 Supreme Court decision, Brown versus the school board? Well, I didn't find out about it until 1956." He also describes the students he knew as mostly inward-focused and apolitical, saying that there were many people...
When Cunningham reports for work March 16 in Seagram's bronze-hued glass tower on Manhattan's Park Avenue, she will coordinate the company's wine ventures. They include Paul Masson and Gold Seal brands bottled in the U.S.; Barton & Guestier wines in France; vineyards throughout Europe; and the marketing for Christian Brothers Wine and Brandy...