Word: homework
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eased up in some ways. But it's still remarkable that they're as big as they are, considering that their concert and recording schedules, TV appearances and the creation of a new series of J-5 animated cartoons all have to be worked around school and homework. The Buckley School (in Sherman Oaks, where all five of them go) makes allowances, and a social worker-tutor travels with the boys wherever they go, but show biz is still a schooling handicap. But then again, the boys, who; get only a small allowance each week, aren...
...Lebanon in search of fresh landscape. Even Victoria Holt, who built her career on familiarity with English history, has packed her bags; her next book will be set in Australia. Phyllis Whitney is just back from Norway with practical advice about scouting locales: "Islands are easy. You do your homework before going and get introductions from people like librarians when you arrive. Cities are harder. In Istanbul, I solved the problem by concentrating on just one mosque, one covered bazaar, one small town up the Bosphorus...
...Republican, Ohio, carries the most celebrated political name into a pledge class laden with famous names. Grandson of a President and Chief Justice, son of "Mr. Republican," he joins the Senate as an automatic headliner. Even of temper, measured of style, he is short on color, long on homework. He is more liberal than the Administration, but fundamentally a party...
...clerk was assigned to monitor office copying machines and discourage employees from duplicating their personal letters or their children's homework. Savings: $6,000 a month...
English reporting has always been hospitable to murder, and Altick, who is a professor of literature at Ohio State University, has done his homework well. The indoor doing-in record was set by Surgeon William Palmer, who got away with no fewer than six and very possibly as many as 14 murders. He overextended himself with the deaths of his wife and brother shortly after he had procured insurance policies on them in his favor...