Word: gablers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...through an equal amount of organization. If 93% of a community doesn't want The Catcher in the Rye, that's O.K. That's a community decision. My disagreement is that in education today things are being run by vocal control, not local control." Snaps Norma Gabler: "It's a double standard. Those liberal elements have controlled the minds of our children for years. If parents bring things up, it's censorship. If they...
...most powerful petitioner was Norma Gabler of Longview, Texas. Gabler and her husband Mel, a retired clerk for Exxon, have spent some 20 years scrutinizing text books for political bias, moral lapses and erosion of traditional values. The Gablers have regularly influenced the Texas board of education to drop texts that they consider too liberal, and in doing so have won the public admiration of such New Right leaders as the Rev. Jerry Falwell and Phyllis Schlafly. But at this year's hearings, a new organization took on the Gablers: People for the American Way, a group founded...
...Gabler arrived at the hearings with two aides from her nonprofit Educational Research Analysts organization and 600 pages of detailed objections to publishers' offerings. In a fourth-grade text by McDougal, Littell & Co., the Gablers objected to a paragraph listing beneficial qualities of drugs like insulin for diabetes on the grounds that such information "is instilling in student minds that the term drugs refers to a beneficial product." In a junior high health text by Ginn & Co., the Gablers took exception to a chapter titled "When Things go Wrong." Their demand: a positive chapter called "When Things Go Right...
...championships by 41 seconds... Marjorie Scharoun set a new University mark with her fifth-place time of 25.7 seconds in the 200-meter dash Lane Rozzell's jump of 5-ft, 4-in, was her best this season...Kathy Busby's split of under 26 seconds and Sigrid "Ziggy" Gabler's split of 58.9 in the sprint medley relay were also personal bests... Stricker and Wiley, after winning their distance events, jogged home from BU for a little extra training...
Once again, Harvard's biggest deficiency is in the shorter runs and hurdles. Freshman Mariquita "Skeets" Patterson--who set Harvard's indoor hurdles and Pentathalon record last winter--will confine her various talents to the Heptathalon today, leaving Sigrid "Ziggy" Gabler to run in the 400-meter hurdles, and Lenny Yajima to contend in the long jump. There will be no one representing the Crimson in the 100-meter hurdles...