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...pupils? Though two out of three teachers said that less than one in every 100 students is a troublemaker, a substantial number felt that delinquency has increased over the past ten years. Half reported an increase in impertinence and discourtesy, 43% said that more pupils disregard their homework, and about one in three noted a rise in vandalism, drinking, profanity and stealing. In the past year, 28% of the big-city teachers and half of those in slum areas reported at least one act of physical violence against a teacher in their schools...
...Homework. In Hemet, Calif., a schoolboy dropped into a stationery store, browsed around, sheepishly asked the clerk: "Have you got any blank report cards...
...because the camera never showed anything but the back of Einstein's head and because the human-interest anecdotes (Einstein flusters a colleague's wife by telling her how to cook calf's liver; Einstein flusters the parents of a little girl by doing her arithmetic homework) were played at tedious length. But Montgomery, who is also the White House television adviser, was consoled for his failure when he learned that President Eisenhower's TV speech explaining his veto of the farm bill got a large portion of the audience that tuned out the Einstein program...
...documentary filmed on location. Like Paul Bowles's more accomplished novel, The Spider's House, set in French Morocco, The Cry of the Kite is a blend of the harsh and the exotic, and an entertainingly readable way of catching up on one's global homework...
Actually, few ordinary drivers can hope to equal the Mobilgas marks. Not only are the cars tuned for a peak performance, but the drivers make test runs of the course, checking and timing for red lights, bad grades, etc. Young Alsbury did his preliminary homework so well that in the whole race, studded with 53 traffic lights, he hit not a single one that...