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...Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, Atlanta chapter, joined together to assault the school's decision to bring direct Protestant dogma into the public school system. Editorials rang out for protection of the First Amendment on the pages of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. However, reports Doug Cumming in The New Republic, from one quarter a conspicuous silence greeted the school's action: African Americans in the predominantly black suburb of DeKalb (the fastest growing black suburb in America) did not protest the motivational assembly...
...buying swimming pools--at the rate of 25,000 a year. Mrs. C.T. Higgins of Portland, Ore., who four years ago had the city's first private, backyard underground shelter, granted that the family had been thinking about converting it into a walk-in deep freeze. Oregon Journal Staffer Doug Baker made an admission in print: he had eaten the last can of sardines out of the family survival...
...slump and slide. And the reason, say experts, is simple. Weeks of relentless rain have saturated not just the top few inches of soil but also underlying layers of bedrock, causing structural weakening deep down. By itself, waterlogged ground is a nuisance. Combined with California's mountainous terrain, says Doug Morton of the U.S. Geological Survey in Riverside, Calif., it can very quickly add up to disaster. Imagine living on the edge of a steep, quivering pile of chocolate pudding. "Mother Nature doesn't like steep slopes," says Morton, "and she does what she can to lower them...
This weekend, the four seniors--Jeremiah McCarthy, Henry Higdon, Doug Sproule and Geordie Hyland--will take to that same ice for what will be their final homestand at Harvard against St. Lawrence and Clarkson...
What's your next Special Report? A list of Congressmen who are fooling around with staff members? DOUG WALKER Asheville...