Word: compton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Increasingly, students in such schools are arming themselves with knives and cheap handguns. "In the kids' eyes, a gun is an equalizer," says one teacher. At Los Angeles' Compton High School a 17-year-old student, armed with a gun and a knife, demanded money from a 16-year-old. The victim drew his own gun and shot the extortionist dead...
Died. Sir Compton Mackenzie, 89, prolific, puckish patriarch of British letters; in Edinburgh. Though successful movies (Sylvia Scarlett, Tight Little Island) were adapted from Mackenzie works, the novel Sinister Street, banned as too risqué when it first appeared in 1913, remained the most popular of his more than 100 books. He wrote controversial nonfiction as well: Greek Memories (1932) earned him a ?100 fine for revealing official documents from his tenure as a World War I intelligence agent, and The Windsor Tapestry (1938) created a sensation with its passionate defense of Edward VIII's abdication. Mackenzie held...
...After six months and more than $8000 in City funds, the hunt has narrowed down to two candidates: Howard C. (Neil) Peterson, the white former City Administrator of New Brunswich, N.J., and James Johnson, the black Deputy City Manager of Kansas City, Mo, and the former City Manager of Compton, Calif...
With a challenge from Kansas State's "Tuttle Creek Ten" out of the way at 800 meters when its six oar, Warren Rose, vaulted into the Charles, Harvard's varsity heavyweight crew swamped MIT and Princeton to grab its tenth straight Compton Cup and establish itself as the cautious favorite for Saturday's eastern showdown in the Adams...
...about a foot, on the average) keeps noises out and it is a great weather insulator as well. But there are some drawbacks: once a thatched roof begins to deteriorate, birds find their way in and drive aviphobes crazy with their chirping. Some roofs have mice, too. Says Lord Compton: "Unfortunately, I'm allergic to cats, so all I can do is put out traps." A more spectacular peril is the danger from fire: a thatched roof, once touched off, explodes in flames...