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...high-risk freshmen to outreach themselves, and last week many of them seemed ready to try. Margaret Sias, a 27-year-old black mother of four with a diploma in "beauty culture" from a Mississippi high school, enrolled "because I'm tired of working in the five-and-dime. Regardless of color, we poor people want to get out of our rut and help others around us start moving." Said Nancy Vincenty, who had planned on being a clerk-typist before she heard of open admissions: "If you want to go to college and don't think...
...Dime a Dozen. Actually, the oversupply of teachers is largely confined to certain subjects. By one estimate, for example, the U.S. now has 15,000 qualified social studies teachers who cannot find jobs in their field. At the same time shortages still exist in math and science, preschool education, guidance work, industrial arts and programs for the handicapped. The changing job market may even improve teaching slightly as administrators stop hiring instructors with minimum qualifications. Says Siskiyou's Assistant Superintendent Bob Dais: "Master's degrees are a dime a dozen...
...dime and a four-second drop, he attains momentary fame. The coin goes into the pedestrian turnstile on San Francisco's Golden Gate, at 4,200 ft. the second longest single-span suspension bridge in the world.* Since the west side is closed to foot traffic, he walks along the bridge's east flank, ignoring a magnificent view of the city. Having reached the center span, he climbs without hesitation over the waist-high guard rail and-again without hesitation-jumps. Even if he hits feet first after a 250-ft. descent, the impact velocity of about...
During an electronics experiment at Albuquerque's Sandia Laboratories, a scientist accidentally sent a pulse of electricity through a dime-sized ceramic chip. He watched in amazement as the ceramic abruptly changed color. Now, after four years of study and further tests, Sandia experimenters believe that the chance observation may have spawned an entirely new technology that will eventually have wide applications in computers and communications...
...normal-size booths, the phone at first glance looks as if it has already been vandalized. There is no receiver-only a steel wall with a grille that hides-and protects-a recessed microphone. A loudspeaker is in the ceiling. Press a button, put in a dime, dial your number, and turn down the volume control if you don't want all the passers-by to hear the amplified voice of the speaker at the other end of the line. Gamblers and bookies hate the new phone, lovers are embarrassed by it and just about everyone accustomed...