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...students sprawl in conversational clusters on the carpeted floors. They spend most of their time jumbled into three vast rooms called "pods" that hold 250 kids apiece. Since the pods are really one-room schoolhouses, Wilde Lake sounds like a hive of teen-agers doing their homework with the radio blaring. Skeptical parents sometimes call it the Wilde Lake "Muddle" School...
...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...