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...help school systems and teachers implement the proposal. One teaching experiment has already been carried out at the Skyline High School in Oakland, Calif. Seventy-five students spent one year studying 50 of Adler's Great Books, using the Socratic method of pedagogy. The results, says Principal Nicholas Caputi, were "stellar," but some 80% of the students were classified as gifted anyway. A fuller test will come in Chicago, where Superintendent Ruth Love plans a pilot school that will give the program a three-year trial...
...tumult in Rome concerned the tangled case of Claudia Caputi, 18, victim of a brutal gang rape last August, who has become a feminist heroine. In Italy's male-dominated Mediterranean culture, rape has usually been regarded as a shameful family secret, infrequently reported and rarely prosecuted. In fact, Italian courts often absolved the rapist if the girl agreed to marry him. In recent years the number of reported rapes has been on the decline-partly, experts theorize, as a result of increased sexual freedom among young people. But Rome has recently been shocked by a rash of vicious...
Other library users reacted less unfavorably to the detour. "I'm slightly irritated," Ilaria Caputi, a graduate student in Romance Languages and Literature said. "It adds to the many things that normally bother one in everyday life...
Freshman Sally Roberts filled the top spot admirably, waxing Ann Caputi, 6-1, 6-2. Lissa Muscatine, although playing without her contacts, blinded Hilary Henderson, 7-6, 6-4. Rita Funara also had an easy time handling Sarah Burchenel...
Across the shell-pocked Sangro battlefield (TIME, Dec. 13), Eighth Army veterans saw a dusky-eyed young woman running, heard her sob: "Stop, stop, oh please stop!" Her story: She was Bonita Caputi, American wife of an Italian officer missing in action. A refugee from Nazi terror, she and her baby daughter had lived with villagers in a cave dug in the Sangro no man's land, had survived eight days & nights of shelling and bombing...
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