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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this had been 1964, my Dad and I would have spent the next week talking about the brilliant plays, the near-interceptions that might have changed the outcome, the necking couple and the Bear. The whole town would have had a hangover--more spiritual than physical. Even my sixth grade teacher, who always insisted over our protests that Birmingham was more famous for steel than for football, would have allowed us to write our Friday essays on the Auburn-Alabama game--if we had been lucky enough to attend. The final gun would not have been...
Robin, a fox, is a bit of a drag, though, and Maid Marian carries on with the giddy decorum of a sixth-grade class room monitor...
Like other members of his family. Edward M. Kennedy Jr., 12, was highly competitive and athletic. He played on the football team at the Washington area's exclusive St. Albans School, where he is in the seventh grade. He rafted down the Colorado River with his father, U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, played a vigorous game of tennis on the family courts at McLean, Va., and skied at Sun Valley. Now young Teddy faces a drastic change in his lifestyle. Last week he was recovering from the amputation of his right leg above the knee -an operation made necessary...
Stewart Doig taught me American history in eleventh grade. He is a hero to me not because of his political beliefs, which I once admired but which I have come to disavow. He is a hero to me because he is a fine and decent man who firmly believes in the goodness of his fellow human beings and because he is one of the few people I know who is unswerving when it comes to acting on those beliefs...
...Education Council of Massachusetts, in which several universities participate, offers twelve new seminars in economics for elementary-school teachers-who report that their pupils are intensely interested. Says Boston University Professor Kenneth Sheldon: "My elementary school teachers are having remarkable success bringing the basics of economics to their students. Grade-schoolers really want to know how this system operates." And Assistant Professor Norman Ellenberg of California State University, Los Angeles has started an economics education program for children in the Los Angeles city school system-beginning in kindergarten...