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...goes the educational process-at least for some teen-agers&$151;in the tiny (pop. 1,400) Ohio town of Mount Grab. The unorthodox program is the town's proud answer to a universal problem: how to deal with dropouts. In Mount Orab, the problem has been severe: for every 200 youngsters who graduated from the town's high school each year, 50 would drop out, often to do little more than hang out on the corner under the town's only streetlight...
Grocery Math. No exercise the students perform is called a test. Instead, the class carries out weekly and monthly "agendas," which may include filling out math work sheets based on grocery ads in the local newspapers, or conducting a tough cross-examination of Mount Grab's vice-mayor on local government. "I'd rather have my class go to see a city council meeting or fix the city's fire hydrants than sit in school all day," says Lodwick. "They're not going to use algebra and Latin, but they might want to run for council...
However, the scrappy Mets topped balls all around the infield in the sixth inning to grab four runs and the lead, 6-3. The New Yorkers kept the bases jammed and Oakland reliever Darold Knowles made a two-run throwing error...
...employees in Peacock's cannery who cut and can the sardines are all women. Standing next to a conveyor belt loaded with fresh fish, they grab the sardines, cut off the heads and tails with a flick of the wrist, and stuff them into the tins. "We've tried using men to pack the fish," says Peacock, "but for some reason they just don't have the stamina. They can't take it for more than a few hours...
...story of the meet, however, was not all Rojas, but the Crimson depth that enabled them to grab the tenth through thirteenth places. These four spots shut out the number five man from UMass, Paul Broughtom. Had he been able to finish ahead of Harvard's Karl Tsigdines, Andy Cambell, Jim Hughes and Jeff Brokaw, the meet might have gone to the Minutemen...