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...requiring all public high school students to demonstrate at least a ninth-grade level of proficiency in reading, writing and arithmetic before qualifying for a state-approved diploma. Then Senator Francis X. Herbert, who doubles as a high school English teacher, discovered that the senators could also use some drill in the fundamentals. The bill misspelled explicit as explict, minimum as minmum and remediation as remediaton. Conceded Sponsor Matthew Feldman: "Sure, it's embarrassing. I never read the bill for spelling." Said Herbert: "I give the senate a B-minus...
...clock one morning last April, the five-man crew of an isolated oil-drilling rig near Chickasha, Okla., was suddenly surrounded by three bandits wearing ski masks and brandishing shotguns. Without uttering a word, the gunmen removed twelve tungsten carbide drill bits worth about $27,000 from the rig's storage shed and then fled with their booty in the crew's pickup truck...
Thievery in various forms has become all too frequent over the past three years in the production fields and exploration areas of the South and Southwest that are the heart of what petroleum people call the U.S. Oil Patch. Spurred by the rise in oil prices, drilling activity has reached its highest level since the '50s, resulting in an acute shortage of pipe, drill bits and other oil-exploring and -producing equipment. Orders for derricks can take as much as 18 months to fill. Buyer impatience has spawned a burgeoning subindustry: a booming black market for stolen oil equipment...
...wild and crazy guys" during morning practice at Groton. McCurdy was standing on the course, stop-watch in tow, waiting for his charges to hustle by. Instead, a van drove up through the early morning fog; and out jumped the squad, stripped naked for a sunrise Chinese fire drill. They then got back into the van and drove off, leaving McCurdy to ponder yet another season in the totally unpredictable Ivy League...Coach Billy Cleary reportedly steaming over his new accomodations at remodeled Dillon Field House. Mr. Hockey's quarters don't have any windows. Maybe he's claustrophobic...
...Wednesday, for instance, the President and Rosalynn strolled through the woods with Begin and his wife Aliza. Thursday evening, the delegates attended a 45-minute performance on the parade field of the U.S. Marine Corps's Drum and Bugle Corps and the Marines' crack silent drill team. Although Carter immensely enjoyed the show, its blatantly martial tone seemed to surprise both Begin and Sadat. Following the performance, the Carters were hosts at a reception at Laurel Lodge for the delegations. All this contributed to such a soothing atmosphere that Begin, in a telephone conversation with aides in Jerusalem...