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Some 11,000 Detroit teachers, including 6,400 members of the American Federation of Teachers, will get raises of $850 annually for two years, work one week less a year, enjoy a bigger voice in textbook selection and curriculum changes. They also won a 30-child limit on class size in the first three grades of ghetto schools and a 39-student limit in all other classes. Unhappy school-board members could only shrug their shoulders when asked where most of the $18.7 million for pay raises will come from, nod hopefully toward the state legislature...
...economy theme is just as pronounced in the Javelin ads. Aimed at the burgeoning youth market, they tackle Ford's successful Mustang head-on with the pitch that the Javelin, while similarly priced (about $2,500), offers such values as contour bumpers, bigger engines and more leg room. To dramatize the car's jumbo gas tank (19 gallons v. the Mustang's 16), one television commercial shows a gang of toughs-"Hey hood, look at the hood!" their leader shouts-siphoning petrol from a parked Javelin. A magazine ad goes even further in highlighting the Javelin...
Buildings & Brides. Another coup came last year when Kroyer was called upon to salvage a 2,700-ton steamer that had sunk in Kuwait harbor and could not be raised by conventional pumping. Though he had never raised any vessel bigger than a test tube, Lab-lubber Kroyer had the answer. He shot the hull full of pea-sized, high-flotation, plastic-foam pellets until it bobbed to the surface, pocketed a handsome...
There are bigger fish in the ocean-but not by much. The alltime record is 1,182 Ibs., caught by the late Lou Marron off Chile in 1953, and monsters easily twice as big have been seen. To that frightening bulk add fantastic speed (up to 60 m.p.h.), a long, terrible sword with which Gladius slays his prey, and a personality of regal, often violent, disdain for virtually anything and everything he encounters in the water...
...weeks ago, he tied into an even bigger fish off Montauk, N.Y. "I fought him for 5¾ hours," says Margulies, "before the reel jammed and the line finally broke. By the time it was over, the pressure on my leather shoulder harness had cut my shoulders and rib cage to ribbons, and I was covered with blood." At least he doesn't have to live with the experience of New York Attorney Frank Bramm, who connected off Montauk. Bramm battled the fish for two hours, skillfully thwarting his every stratagem. At last he maneuvered him to within...