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Sydney P. Marland Jr., 51, came to Pittsburgh's 77,000-pupil school system from such relatively vest-pocket operations as Darien, Conn, and Winnetka, Ill. Since September 1963, Marland has demonstrated that this did not di minish his ability to think big. The chief elements of his Pittsburgh plan: - TEAM TEACHING. As in other schools, a group of half a dozen or more teachers work together with a large group of children. "But team teaching is more a spirit than a thing," says Marland. He finds that since teachers can be more creative, teaching in slum areas becomes...
...question came up with a vengeance in Darien, Conn., last November, after police raided the apartment of Michael Smith, 20, the troubled youth who brought the town a fame of sorts a year ago when he got drunk at a debutante party and accidentally drove his date to her death. That time, Smith was convicted of negligent homicide and reckless driving. This time, using a search warrant, the cops nabbed Smith and his roommate for possession of marijuana, which they said was stashed in his attic, a suitcase and a bureau drawer...
Defense Lawyer Richard Weinstein exploded: "These people have been exposed to extraordinary destruction of their lives." It was "unconscionable," he said, "to leave them to the tender mercies of the Darien police department and now come into court and say we have no evidence against them...
...obscurity," as Poe put it. A good poem should sound good the first time around -- but it's entirely possible to slide through this whole magazine without being moved or interested enough by anything to want to understand it. If an Advocate writer stands silent on a peak in Darien, he usually stands there alone, while the public sticks to Chem 20 in the foothills far below...
INTER-AMERICAN HIGHWAY: BRIDGE OF THE AMERICAS (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A ride, in color, 3,000 miles down the highway from Laredo, Texas, to the Darien Gap in Panama, with sightseeing en route...