Word: crawl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worn off. Politicians are, however, again arousing passions, private white academies are proliferating, and resistance to more integration is growing. Such calm advice as that of Alabama Superintendent of Education Ernest Stone is sorely needed. Says he: "If they'll let me keep the public school system, I'll crawl on my belly and eat grass and crow until doomsday." Studies of Southern integration show that black children profit academically from the experience. Black students in a tenth grade in Rome, Ga., were tested in 1965 and found to be performing at seventh-through ninth-grade levels. A test...
...induce a meditative state is just plain hard on the eyes. Designer Victor Lukens' reflective plastic chair tends to disorient rather than put its occupant at ease. As yet unfinished is what should be the centerpiece of the show-a twelve-foot stroboscopically lighted waterfall. The visitor will crawl through an access tube into a clear plastic enclosure, where he may sit, perfectly dry, while water cascades all around him. "He will feel as if he were under Niagara," says one of its designers...