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Meredith began passing in the second grade in Mt. Vernon, Texas, where he toddled into the state's cradle-robbing system of organized football. By his senior year in high school, Meredith was all-state in both football and basketball. At S.M.U. he is a business major (C average), counts the days until Christmas vacation when he will marry blonde Cheerleader Lynne Shamburger, wears a complete wardrobe from his father's dry-goods store in Mt. Vernon, and grins at the standard campus gag: Meredith has done more for Mt. Vernon than George Washington...
...edge. It lost that several years ago, but feels sure of its incumbence and hopes to regain domination with new candidates. But such a victory might be dangerous to the CCA. The urban renewal program gives the city the weapons needed to tear down massive areas of low-grade housing, preparing the way for private redevelopment of desirable property. Such projects would inevitably permanently displace from the city a large number of its residents, and such a move might well provide political impetus for a move to abandon Plan E. Cities with Plan E charters have fought tough battles...
There is a danger, however, that the ultimate objectives of the course may be obscured under the exemption plan. Seminar leaders who offer to supervise the writing work of freshmen must be prepared to pay more-than-ordinary attention to students' writing. They must do more than grade and discuss paper as exercises within a specific discipline; they must work to develop students' general prose ability as well...
...many parts of the country, women are still kept in purdah, and before marriage Pakistani boys seldom meet a female who is not a close relative. With rare exceptions there is no teen-age dating, there are no mixed parties, and the sexes are segregated through grade and high school. But at Karachi University, nearly 5,000 of the 16,000 students are girls-emancipated girls who no longer hide beneath the traditional sack-like burka that shrouds devout Moslem women from head...
...must cope with Hyman Kaplan's daymares is Mr. Parkhill (Hyman renders it "Pockheel"), the earnest and durable idealist who teaches the beginners' grade of the American Night Preparatory School for Adults. Parkhill's melting pot simmers with some flavorful characters, though their jokes are unlikely to revive the vanishing art of dialect humor. To class repeaters, including Miss Mitnick. the blushing birddog of blackboard errors. Author Rosten has added some newcomers. There is Mr. Matsoukas. a muttering Greek for whom derivation is the mother of invention (" 'Automobile' is Grik! 'Airplane' is Grik...