Word: calle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kicking the Tradition. Under the paternalistic rule of le Pere, as his countrymen call him, youngsters everywhere now flock to new secular schools that have replaced the dreary old Koranic institutions. Young Tunisian women wear mini-djebbas that are the scandal of the mullahs, and bikinis among the scantiest on the Mediterranean. But Bourguiba is kicking more than tradition into the North African dust...
...York, United Federation of Teachers Leader Albert Shanker had so far escaped penalties (see EDUCATION). Most labor-law scholars agree that there are only two ways to remedy the situation. Either strikes by public employees must be allowed, or tough penalties must be imposed and enforced against unions that call public-sector strikes. The choice could be made differently for essential personnel (police, firemen) and nonessential personnel (clerks, maintenance men). But it must be made, since the whetted appetite of public employees for greater benefits means that strikes will come with greater frequency...
...does not lead to sexual excess, and does not lead to progression to other drugs. Dr. Nicholas Malle-son, member of Britain's advisory commission on drug dependence and currently a visiting professor at M.I.T., agreed and added that it is not even psychologically addictive, "unless you would call my desire to go home after a day's work to have a gin and talk to my wife a psychologically dependent habit...
...breaks down to $4.12 a performance or roughly 20 a kick. The dancers must rehearse 120 hours without pay for the nine new extravaganzas mounted every year at the Music Hall, perform four shows daily for 21 consecutive days followed by six days off. Even then they are on call as replacements, and friends of the Rockettes have learned to use a telephone code system (ring twice, hang up, and then redial) to let them know that it is not the Music Hall calling...
...show lasted only long enough for Ames's agent to get a call for an 8-by-10 glossy picture of Ames in swimming trunks. The request was from the producers of the upcoming Daniel Boone TV series. This is Ames's fourth -and probably last-season in the show. Fess Parker, who plays the title role, co-produces, and owns a 30% piece of Boone, is chafing in his buckskins because Ames pulled more fan mail last spring. In any case, Ames wants out of the noble-savage bit. "Television series are a great hazard," he explains...