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...1500m--1) Striker (H) 4:20.9 (new course record). 2(Wiley (H) 4:21.8,3) Fallon (BC) 4:47.9,4) Willis (BC) 4:48.3, 55m Hurdie--Patterson (H) 8.7.2) Paul (BC) 8.7,3) Perron (M(8.9,4) Goode (BC) 8.9; 400m--1) Busby (H) 60.0,2) Gabler (H) 60.0,3) Bird (M) 60.1, Lucey (BC) 60.5,55 Meter Dash--1) Freeman (BC) 7.4,2) Rice (BC) 7.4,3) Scharoun (H) 7.6,4) Small (M) 7.8; 800m--1) DeFries (H)2:13.7,2) Barrett (H) 2:16.4,3) Connelly (BC) 2:18.04) Conigliar (BC) 2.22.9; 200m--1) Freeman...
...Gabler, she finds her own existence claustrophobic and the society around her contemptible. "I like to lose control," she announces enigmatically. She can fire off a pistol in a drawing room to scare the wits out of people, and in the course of Plenty, she loses...
...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...