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N.E.T. JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "A Second Chance" describes the helping hand extended to youngsters at the Job Corps' center in New Bedford, Mass., focusing on a 17-year-old Puerto Rican high school dropout from New York City and the Job Corps' effect on his life...
...tension Negro section of Los Angeles that erupted in fierce rioting a year and a half ago, measurable progress is almost impossible to discern. Local officials have done almost nothing, and the federal program has bogged down in red tape. Although there are job-training classes in Watts, the dropout rate is almost 50%. Small wonder. The curriculum, which includes such subjects as termite control and motorcycle repair, scarcely seems tailored to the Watts job market. Last summer, when it was feared that Watts would erupt again, federal officials earmarked $262,000 for "Operation Cool-It," aimed at shifting...
...Lurleen was a dime store clerk who married at 16, do we have a high school dropout for Governor...
...Smart Dropouts. Both schools have belatedly become bothered by high dropout rates. About one-third of Caltech's and one-fifth of M.I.T.'s frosh do not stay for four years, which implies that if such smart kids do not make it, something must be wrong with the teaching. To help freshmen adjust to the competition, Caltech now issues only "pass" or "fail" grades the first year. M.I.T., tired of the student refrain that "Tech is hell," has similarly loosened its freshman and sophomore course load, broken up its long-standard curriculum. "In the past, if a fellow...
...knocking around the fringes of folk music separately for a few lean years, they joined forces in 1965 and made their first single, California Dreamin'. It went straight to the top of the bestseller charts, as did their next release, Monday, Monday. Papa John Phillips, 25, an Annapolis dropout, is the group's songsmith, and what his lyrics lack in depth his melodies make up in lilting appeal. Phillips' wife Michelle, a willowy ex-model, is the spiraling soprano; Denny Doherty, 24, sings a secure tenor. Anchor girl is rotund (200 lbs.) Cass Elliot, 23, whose ringing...