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...Delmar G. Esau...
Although he works for fashionable causes such as El Salvador and divestment, the Delmar, N.Y. native defies a radi-chic characterization. His parents both teach high school and Guy, a public school graduate, has always worked as part of his financial aid package; he now holds down a job as assistant to the publisher at Working Papers, a progressive bi-monthly political magazine...
...friends and associates were stunned by the charges and reports that he had left behind brokerage debts totaling $22 million. Said Delmar Cram, principal of Humboldt High School, where Lewellyn was once student body president: "It's shocking as heck. Morally, you would have bet your bottom dollar on him." Cram added that Lewellyn was an "ambitious boy with sights set on the stratosphere." The Iowa criminal investigation division and federal agents are not looking quite that far, but they are checking leads in Costa Rica and Hong Kong...
...have children of postal workers, bus drivers and truckers." Not only can such parents pay, they also share a belief that public schools, even in kindergarten, are unreliable. Because of the possibility of strikes, curriculum cutbacks, busing problems and even school closings, says David Fleishhacker, headmaster of the Katherine Delmar Burke School in San Francisco, parents cannot be sure what public schools will be like from year to year. "Private schools seem more stable." Says San Francisco Child Specialist Jeanne Lepper: "Parents think, 'Oh, my God, if my child doesn't make it at the beginning...
...should be the best crop I've had in many, many years," gloated Delmar Grotefendt, surveying the fields of ripe golden corn on his 350-acre farm in Marine, Ill. Only last year corn blight, which destroyed 15% of the nation's corn harvest, rotted black much of Grotefendt's planting. Farmers feared that the virulent fungus might ruin up to half the crop this summer. Yet last week, a mood of quiet satisfaction was evident across the U.S. heartland as farmers began bringing in one of the most bountiful harvests in history...