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This year, another element has come forth to champion the cause of substandard public schooling. In a recent statement, fifteen top Catholic ecclesiastics declared that they will oppose all Federal aid to elementary and high schools unless it includes assistance to private (a cuphemism for "parochial") institutions as well. Since this group included all five U.S. cardinals, its views will probably not go unheeded by the nation's 35 million Catholics...
...recent years, she has been increasingly intrigued by the intricacies of overcoming technical problems. "The theme always dictates the form for me," she stresses. Until the last ten or fifteen years her themes blended with the form most natural to her--the short story. "One person's whole life can be put into 2,000 words," she notes, "but groups of people interacting on one another won't fit into a short story. So I tried putting them in a novel." Her methods of writing differ widely in the two forms, although in most cases the finished product falls into...
...Fifteen straight points stretched the Penn lead to 45 to 23, before Gene Augustine's jumper at the half-time buzzer made it 45-25. The Quakers scored on 20 of 36 shots in the half, a 56 per cent average...
...small chamber that can be filled in two seconds with enough gas to knock a man unconscious. The exit from the chamber opens directly into the prison's inner yard, where rows of iron grey dormitories and brick administrative buildings line a large rectangular plot surrounded by a fifteen foot stone wall...
...engaged in prison instruction for six years, and currently reaches one tenth of the state's 200 prisoners. Three dozen students are working as teachers this winter, and classes range from three to fifteen pupils. Instruction is in four of the state's seven prisons, at Norfolk, Walpole, Concord, and Framingham...