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...also frustrated Author Leo Stein, whose loathing of his prolific sister, Gertrude, was a feature of the boulevards. "My God, Sam!" Leo would groan to Author Putnam, "You have no idea how dumb she is! Why, when we were in school, I used to have to do all her homework...
Atlanta felt no more than minor inconvenience, and teachers actually found new hope for teen-age boys and girls who were driven by the shutdown from endless nightly phone communion to homework. In Kansas City, as in most struck cities, telegraph business zoomed a staggering 50 to 80%. In flooded Michigan, hurried conferences between company and union officials quickly restored emergency service to stricken areas. Radio "hams" took over part of the disaster-message burden in the devastated wake of the Texas-Oklahoma tornado (see Disaster). Denver's harassed company officials indignantly refused to deliver "Come home to lunch...
...were on the rise last week. Some recent strikes and issues: in Rogersville, Tenn., for better teachers; in Lock Haven, Pa., against corporal punishment; in Chicago, because the boys wanted a football team and the girls wanted to wear slacks; in New York City, against Christmas homework; in Sapulpa, Okla., for a longer vacation. Sapulpa fathers formed a united front to break the strike, applied "woodshed tactics...
Long the bane of Math A goers, the course texts, written by former staff members Osgood and Graustein, are admittedly inferior and used mainly for their homework problems. In places the subject matter is incorrect and in others it is now taught differently. The Department has rejected all substitutes, however, as being even more inadequate for the purpose of the course. If the staff refuses to use other books in the field, then it is clearly time to write one of its own, designed expressly for the course, as in English...
...left tackle, Tex Coulter (dropped from West Point in June because his math grades were poor) is tough on defense, but he is apt to be a vulnerable link when the Giants have the ball. Halas' Bears practice three hours a day, get three lectures a week and homework...