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Died. Joseph Dunninger, 82, magician and mentalist; of Parkinson's disease; in Cliffside Park, N.J. Dunninger's first intimations of telepathic power came, he said, when he realized he could read grade-school classmates' minds and find solutions to math problems. Dunninger began as a magician (among his tricks: making an elephant disappear, sawing a woman in eighths), later perfected the mind-reading act that made him famous. Among the brains Dunninger picked were those of six Presidents and such luminaries as Thomas Edison and Pope Pius XII, who temporarily baffled him by thinking in Latin. Like...
...1960s took many blacks up the job escalator into the middle class in half the usual time. "A new breed of cat was produced, the black technocrat," says Robert Coard, director of an antipoverty agency in Boston. William Fuller, who earned $8,100 a year as a grade-school teacher in Portland, Ore., illustrates how fast a black technocrat can ascend. Between 1967 and 1969 he advanced from a planner for a Model Cities program to executive secretary of the State Intergroup Human Relations Commission (salary: $15,500 a year) to state director of compensatory education ($22,500). Today...
...Brother when the $50,000 publicity effort began, he was saturated with the image by last week. Along the freeways, billboards were filled with an eerily staring human eye. Similar eyes glared balefully from a dozen small ads in a single day's newspaper. Television spots showed a grade-school girl playing unconcernedly, then frozen into a prisoner-like pose with a Social Security number on a placard hung from her neck...
...says Author-Critic Clifton Fadiman, 69, "I began to get less interested in grownups and more interested in children." A lifelong addict-pusher of good reading for adults (Book-of-the-Month Club judge, author of The Lifetime Reading Plan), Fadiman has now set out to hook the grade-school crowd. From his hilltop home in Santa Barbara, where he is also preparing a critical history of children's literature, Fadiman is editing a brisk new magazine called Cricket...
There is a third point which, like the preceding two, is an extension of one of the basic myths of public education. It is the myth of free and unmanipulated options. The university-extension of this grade-school self-deceit is the idea which liberal jargon calls "the open market of ideas." Intellectuals from Harvard, Yale and M.I.T. write often--and with considerable alarm--of those within the Rebel Left who seek to undermine, subvert, destroy the so-called "open conflict" of competitive ideas which universities pretend to be. Even in those sub-sections of the major universities--Law, Medicine...