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Like many publishing executives, Roger Rogalin of D.C. Heath has doubted that school authorities would press for upgrading the notoriously bland content of textbooks. Even after California's superintendent of public instruction Bill Honig warned publishers last year that his state meant business in reaching for higher standards, Rogalin said, "We've heard a number of times that things were going to change, only to see them fall apart down the road...
...treating subjects like pollution) and, most glaringly, evolution. The state's 16-member curriculum commission charged that these topics "were systematically omitted from the vast majority of textbooks." California, which buys 12% of U.S. school books, more than any other state, granted the six least neglectful publishers, including D.C. Heath, a conditional reprieve: they have until Oct. 15 to submit acceptable revision plans...
Opinion was divided on whether the outcome in Westmoreland's case, and in the libel case that former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon lost against TIME, would encourage or discourage libel suits. Said Executive Editor Heath Meriwether of the Miami Herald: "The ability of CBS to put on a rousing defense was well noted, and I would hope that this has raised red flags among potential plaintiffs. Libel litigation has not proved to be either effective or efficient as the forum in which to seek redress for alleged wrongs." First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams, whose clients have included...
KING LEAR (syndicated). In what may prove to be his last great role, Laurence Olivier acts up a storm--and, in the heath scene, outacts one--scaling the majesty of Shakespeare's mad monarch. Will this Lear be surpassed on TV? Never, never, never, never, never...
...change. At the conference he told publishers of new, higher standards, outlined in two pamphlets approved by the state board of education. But industry representatives are skeptical. "We've heard a number of times that things were going to change," says Roger Rogalin, editor in chief of D.C. Heath & Co. Yet the formulas remain in place. "It's a catch-22 situation," sums up Bernstein. "Until the states stop requiring readability formulas, publishers won't stop using them to write and edit texts...