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Fisher recalls that he "finally got a hold of someone, and I said, 'Where is everybody'? And this fellow said, 'But it's all over. We're independent.'" Eventually Fisher did arrange a meeting, "and we got people to write on one side of a blackboard the jobs that had to be done--the roads, the hospitals, the schools, raising money, bookeeping, economic planning and development, foreign affairs, defense, police. On the other side of the blackboard, we wrote the names of people that somebody thought might be good for the job, and then we just had long discussions...
...martial law." It is a serious charge, which Kozol supports with more rhetoric than hard facts. His own prose style is larded with prejudice (School Committee Member Lee "looked out over his half-moon glasses almost like a childish madman"). Some of his statements are pure bathos; when a blackboard falls on a girl's desk, Kozol asks: "Was she saying with those eyes which looked down so steadily, as if with apology, that she really felt very sorry and did not mean to have gotten her small head in the way of the board?" Kozol's indignation...
Wallach's mailman is an intellectual who never went to college because he couldn't master French. He lives in a basement flat that other people use as a storage room. There's a blackboard in the room on which he places...
Teledyne, Inc. of Los Angeles has grown into a $400 million-a-year technological complex in only seven years by thinking big and moving fast. Founder-Chairman Henry E. Singleton, 50, who keeps a blackboard in his office for rapid-fire chalk talks on the intricacies of his company, obviously believes that those with whom Teledyne deals should move fast too. Earlier this month, Teledyne offered $40 a share for 7,500,000 outstanding shares of United Insurance Co. of America (assets: $303 million). United stock was then selling at $27. Last week, apparently because directors of the Chicago-based...
Because it was organized late last week, class members will have to be resectioned and Evans' section disbanded. And there are physical problems in using the Lowell House Library as a classroom (wheeling in a blackboard, for instance)--problems which might be more severe in other houses...