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...counters Harvey Scribner, former New York City chancellor of schools and now a professor at the University of Massachusetts School of Education. "Classrooms should be opened up." Meanwhile parents blame teachers, teachers blame parental permissiveness' and educators point to society as the culprit. "Everyone is trying to pass the buck," says Grace Baisinger, president of the national Parent-Teacher Association...
There have been charges that unscrupulous insulation distributors are out to make a fast buck on the public's energy anxieties. Some wholesalers have hiked prices 20%, even though fiber glass manufacturers have not raised most quotes since last March. Arthur Milot, president of a Rhode Island lumber firm, says he was offered insulation in September by a salesman from National Gypsum, a distributor for Owens-Corning, for 20% above the prevailing price. He refused to buy, yet the incident convinced him that whatever profiteering is going on is occurring at "the middleman's level...
Quick now: Who wears $700 white suits, balloons on his head, an arrow through his skull, rabbit ears and a rubber nose and is forever afflicted by uncontrollably buck-and-winging "happy feet"? "Hey, we're havin' sommmme fuuun," he chortles. Pregnant pause. "Hey, this guy is really... crazy! By now, any halfway clued-in cultist should recognize silver-haired Steve Martin, 32, a Dadaesque philosopher turned goofball...
...Congressmen found Clarke's ruminations on space travel to be far-fetched but not unbelievable. In the discussion that followed, Clarke fielded questions about the potential cost overrun on space colonization and traded reminiscences of the cartoon strip Buck Rogers with Rep. Thomas N. Downing (D-Va.). The essay provides an amusing, edifying and somewhat poignant look at how space policy...
...year later he returned with only $4.50 worth of gold dust, but he had struck a mother lode in himself. He discovered he was a writer. After a few short stories in the manner of an Alaskan Rudyard Kipling, he scribbled a rattling yarn about a sled dog named Buck who, when his master was killed, turned wild in a snarling if romantic rejection of civilization. The Call of the Wild sold in the millions and made a myth of its mythmaker. Now, with the publication of two new biographies and the republication of a third, the question...