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...York City's Board of Education. Superintendent Bernard Donovan claims that it would lead to the selection of teachers and principals on the basis of "pull, influence, race, or some other way instead of merit." Albert Shanker,*president of New York's United Federation of Teachers, con tends that it would create "chaos" through conflict between districts and confusion in contract negotiations; if the plan is approved, he predicts that teacher unrest would lead to "thou sands" of resignations. Most Puerto Rican and Negro civil rights organiza tions, however, strongly endorse the Bundy proposal in the hope that...
Writer-Director Brooks has followed Capote's story with remarkable fidelity. Hickock (Scott Wilson), an ex-con, allows his narrow, twisted mind to feed on rumors of a safe with $10,000 in the Clutter farmhouse. He persuades his parolee friend Smith to come along for the ride. But this is no ordinary caper, since both men teeter on the edge of madness. Hickock has strong but subliminal homosexual feelings, and likes to call his colleague "Honey." Perry, brutalized since childhood by his rodeo-riding father, is the victim of a motorcycle accident that left his dwarfed legs...
...fresh aggressiveness of their own. They once again attacked the Special Forces camp of Bu Dop, three miles from the Cambodian border, but were beaten off by 1st Infantry Division soldiers. North Vietnamese artillery and mortar units poured the heaviest fire on the U.S. Marine Demilitarized Zone outpost of Con Thien in more than a month-276 rounds in a single day. The U.S. also was monitoring a heavy buildup in Communist traffic coming down the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos toward South Viet...
...Inmates. A 22-year-old college student spent nearly four weeks there earlier this year after being convicted of buying $150 worth of merchandise on someone else's credit card. He recalls that on his arrival, the "barn boss" of his tier, a Negro con named "Briefcase," immediately "told me that because I was white and weak, I would need protection." Briefcase offered to provide it in return for the boy's shirt and coat. The student reluctantly ponied up, but that night Briefcase and a friend came to his cell, and attacked him homosexually. "I begged them...
...HANDFUL OF THIEVES, by Nina Bawden (Lippincott; $3.50). In an effort to catch a cagey con man and robber, five English youngsters turn thieves and almost end up in jail. Exciting and amusing...