Word: feb
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...teacher at Wilson High School in San Francisco, I am very angry at the view of Wilson presented in your article "Fogbound Schools" [Feb. 25]. While it is true that there are many serious problems at Wilson, it is equally true that there are positive and exciting things happening. To choose only the negative aspects of the school and to ignore the very real positive aspects does a gross disservice to the students, who are fighting to succeed in a society which, they fear, is reluctant to recognize their efforts and their success. TIME'S reporter interviewed science teachers...
President would submit his proposed budget on Feb. 15. In both houses, the budget would be referred to newly created budget committees, which would analyze its proposals with the help of economists and other experts in a new congressional Office of the Budget. The two budget committees would meet by May 1 to issue a concurrent resolution setting spending levels for all 14 major categories of programs, including health, defense and space. The committees would also specify the revenues that would be needed and the expected deficit, if any, and its effect upon the national debt. The master plan proposed...
...Concerning your article on "Men of the House" [Feb. 18]: the terms "housewife" and "househusband" are all right if you insist on being specific, but "house-spouse" has much to offer as an all-purpose replacement...
...finally been persuaded to surrender on the remote Philippine island of Lubang. For many Japanese, Onoda's ordeal seemed to strike a more responsive emotional chord than that of Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi, another wartime Rip van Winkle, who returned from his hideout on Guam two years ago (TIME, Feb. 7, 1972). Yokoi had remained in hiding because he was afraid, and did not know that the war was over...
...started with a 3,500-word story by Shipler published Feb. 25. Shipler had spent six weeks studying the scope of U.S. assistance to the Thieu government. He interviewed privately employed American technicians who service South Viet Nam's military hardware-equipment and maintenance paid for by the U.S. He also sought an explanation of U.S. policy from American officials. The ambassador, who has sharply reduced press access to the embassy since he arrived in August, refused...