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...back in Fort Worth. Not all teachers can be won over by the jockish charm of a good old boy showing a little interest in their subject. Not all battles can be won with just a little bit of effort and some sincere good will. The brave new world I had chosen to enter by coming to Harvard was not going to be a cakewalk...
...back in Fort Worth. Not all teachers can be won over by the jockish charm of a good old boy showing a little interest in their subject. Not all battles can be won with just a little bit of effort and some sincere good will. The brave new world I had chosen to enter by coming to Harvard was not going to be a cakewalk...
...this brave new marketplace, education and business are harder and harder to separate. For this school year, Paramount budgeted $5,000 for advertising and $6,000 for textbooks. Even as the school was freezing funds for new supplies, Paramount principal Bud Garrett had to send his teachers door-to-door to recruit new pupils. "We scrambled big time," explains Garrett, "flyering and advertising until we got up to 140." While Garrett and his staff were out fishing for students, Cline was hard at work on another venture: a second Paramount campus in nearby Peoria, where he says there are "better...
...saviors were a brave company of men from the 6th Ranger Battalion. With the help of Filipino guerrilla bands, the Rangers slipped into the Japanese-held jungle and threaded their way around Japanese encampments to the prison, shot their way through the gates and, after a bloody firefight, hustled all the prisoners onto waiting buffalo carts for the journey back to safety...
Opponents of abortion don't have to make it illegal if they can make it impossible to get one. Bless those brave young medical students [SOCIETY, May 7] for having the courage to address the appalling lack of reproductive health care available to many women today and to push for abortion to be included in their medical school curriculums. These young doctors will face a lot more ugliness now that they have been featured in Time, but they should know that many reasonable people support them and are grateful for their actions. CAROL GEVECKER GRAVES Baltimore...