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...that it would have been most unwise for me to have been involved in this kind of dispute." Responded a disgruntled school official, after the ceremony was called off and the stone put in storage: "It's not much good to us now. We might lay it face downward and use it as part of the floor." ∙ ∙ ∙ Raptly gazing at herself on screen, Brigitte Bardot, 27, liked what she saw almost as much as the Paris critics. Her latest flick, Le Repos du Guerrier (The Warrior's Rest), directed by ex-Husband Roger Vadim...
...distance. For spectators at Orange, Mass., last week, the World Sport Parachuting Championships held bleak rewards: the sight of countless parachutes floating down, enough accidents to add the thrill of danger. But for the chutists, there was the intoxicating sensation of man flying on his own, guiding his long, downward swoop through the atmosphere...
...School reforms are percolating downward. Fresh from rewriting U.S. high school physics, M.I.T.'s Jerrold Zacharias and colleagues are busily doing the same for elementary school science. Astronomy starts in fourth grade in East Whittier, Calif., and geometry in second grade in Burlingame. Calif. At San Francisco's Herbert Hoover Junior High School, which last year had 14-year-olds earning college credits in math. 40 of this year's seventh-graders will be so well started that once they get to college they may get M.A.s in math before they graduate...
Doing Nothing. Some 2.4% of the nation's 65-and-over oldsters have been forced to give up the fight for self-reliant existence and have entered one of the thousands of institutions for the aged that range downward from expensive private adequacy to public squalor. Whether they are in converted Manhattan brownstones or onetime country estates, mental and physical deterioration usually comes fast amid the frayed checkerboards, the flickering television sets and the cold tea. In one such home on the Eastern seaboard, a former foreman said softly to a visitor last week: "I can't think...
Long on Shorts. Disconcerted by the overall news, the stock market-itself a leading indicator of sorts-slipped haplessly downward. Despite a feeble rally toward week's end, it closed on Friday with the Dow-Jones industrial average at 577.18, a loss of more than 13 points for the week. From the New York Stock Exchange came news that the number of shares borrowed by short sellers had risen by mid-July to the highest level (5,159,000 shares) in nearly four years. This was a sure sign that many Wall Streeters were betting that the market...