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McDowell calls shared time "more reasonable," but it still gets a cool reaction from many public school administrators. ''If we fracture our curriculum," says one, "what remains for public schools to teach?" Even cooler are those Catholic educators who feel not only that every subject-even electronics-needs religious interpretation, but that U.S. Catholics are rich enough to pay for bigger and better parochial schools...
With the onset of cooler weather and a new season, television sets reach their biggest sales; the last four months of the year account for 42% of U.S. yearly sales of TV sets by distributor to retailer...
...racing cars-the lighter they are, the faster they are-and Weatherly was stripped to the bone. Halyard and lift winches were removed from the mast and fastened to the deck. Unnecessary bulkheads, deck rails, and the masthead wind indicator (weight: about 2 lbs.) were gone. Even a beer cooler and a wooden pipe rack were sacrificed for speed...
...Souvanna's enthusiasm was shared in Moscow. Nikita Khrushchev fired off a cable to President John Kennedy hailing the creation of a neutral Laotian government as "good news" in the "cause of strengthening peace in Southeast Asia." In Washington the mood was appropriately cooler. Kennedy replied that settlement of the Laos problem was a "milestone," but added warily that it was "important that no untoward actions anywhere" interrupt the progress already made...
...This is the language of responsibility." They handed down to the 20th century a lean, taut prose that reflected a cooler, grimmer appraisal of life. "I believe that force is the ultima ratio" wrote Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who fought in the war for three years and was almost killed, "and between two groups that want to make inconsistent kinds of world I see no remedy except force." After weaving his way through these Civil War writings, on which he has worked for nearly 15 years. Critic Wilson seems to take a view of the war as bleak as Holmes...