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Mounting Mountain. House Democrats lay much of the blame for the situation on Agriculture Secretary Freeman, who sent up Kennedy's controversial bill without really bothering to sound out congressional opinion. Says a House leader: "They didn't do their political homework before they did their legal drafting." Says a White House strategist: "The picture is pretty black. It's a barrel of eels...
...collect some baptismal forms. "I told him his behavior was not right," she said. "No, but it is nice," the vicar replied. Also accusing Thomas were two girls aged 13 and 14, who said that the vicar hugged and kissed them when they asked for help with Sunday school homework...
...sailors think. ("Hardware" courses come later at land-based nuclear plants.) The curriculum is a fat-free diet of pure math, physics, chemistry, electronics, engineering and health physics (to guard against radiation) that goes on for seven 50-minute periods a day, plus an average of four hours of homework done in a tiny, distraction-free cell. Teachers are on duty for help around the clock, and Rickover himself often conducts a final oral exam...
Flickering Flare. It began again one evening last week on the New Haven Railroad's 5:07, which left Manhattan's Grand Central Station and headed out for suburban Westchester and Connecticut. The commuters had settled down with their newspapers, homework, bridge games and liquid nourishment...
...students completed in two weeks a highly abstract algebra course that used to take more than two months. A programed course in logic at Hamilton College cut class time by one-third. At Columbia University, one student wrote a perfect.final exam after doing one term's math homework in four hours and 20 minutes. In Roanoke, Va., last year, 34 eighth-graders finished a one-year algebra course in six months, working 50 minutes a day without homework; 41% of them tested at ninth-grade level or better...