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Academically, the public schools are left to flounder. The Roman Catholic schools, with nearly half as many students as the public system, draw off most of the brightest. The public system has only 43 remedial-reading teachers, although students at all levels are at least six months behind the norm on standardized reading tests. In an area that cries for electronics techni cians, vocational schools still teach cabinetmaking. In all of Boston's high schools, there are only 18 guidance counselors, and only a quarter of the graduates go on to college. Of this number, more than half...
...finished our talks, it'll be warm and sunny. There'll be blue skies and tulips." Sunny it was, at least in talk. Out on the Kennedy patio in wicker chairs, walking around the deep green lawn, beside a crackling fire or over poached flounder, the two talked for ten hours in all. The substance was about as expected. Canada will live up to its word on nuclear arms; U.S. and Canadian officials will work out new arrangements for sharing defense production; labor leaders from both sides will meet to settle a bitter dispute between rival Canadian...
Chess & Counterspies. Labyrinth takes place in a murky sort of mahogany Marienbad. Endless corridors and countless doors make the plight of a bridegroom who has lost his key and forgotten his room number on his wedding night seem hopeless indeed. As he and his bride flounder around with understandable impatience, a series of personages appear, each bearing-according to Menotti-a strong allegorical identity. An old man in a wheelchair, who represents The Past, lures the groom into a cobwebby conservatory filled with jungle plants to play a possibly symbolic game of chess. Another door leads him into a drab...
...view of the potential danger, however small, the PHS recommended that communities withhold Type III from adults, yet at the same time urged that all types be given to children. But many Communities decided to stop all Sabin activities and allowed their vaccination programs to flounder despite PHS pleas for more inoculations. These events elicited remarks from Dr. Salk in praise of his vaccine, protests from Sabin, a statement from New York Health Commissioner Hilleboe that he would only permit use of the Salk preparation, and a remark from Dr. Eichenwald of Cornell's New York Hospital insisting that oral...
Flourish or Flounder. The calculated result of such hands-off supervision is a press confederacy whose members take strength from association but are permitted to flourish or flounder almost entirely on their own. Scripps-Howard papers do both, in a pattern as diversified as the U.S. press at large. Items: > Perennially third in a field of three papers, the tabloid Washington Daily News not only returns a tidy profit but has taught its bigger competitors a journalistic trick or two. Shrewdly leaving politics to the Post (Democratically inclined) and the Star (Republican), bulky, freckled Editor John O'Rourke beams...