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...tell you what will happen if the Republican candidate is elected," Bobby Kennedy told the kids as he stumped California with Democratic Governor Pat Brown. "School on Saturday. More homework." His pitch to adults was just as tongue-in-cheeky: "Are you so devoid of compassion that you want to take Ronald Reagan out of the movies? He's beloved in the movies; send Ronald Reagan back to the theater...
When one below-average student tries to teach another, both improve far more than they would under normal schooling conditions. So at least has been the experience of Manhattan's antipoverty Mobilization for Youth program, which three years ago set up a "homework helpers" project that paired high school students as after-hours reading tutors with academically backward grade-school children, most of them Negroes and Puerto Ricans from the city's depressed Lower East Side. Since top students could not always be found as "role models" who might inspire the younger children to greater industry, M.F.Y...
...each month, at a rental of $160 monthly, he can type problems into the machine and get instant solutions. Besides using it in his work and to help design his own hydrofoil boat, Foy will rent out computer time to his two grade-school children to assist them with homework. For each three minutes of computer time, Daddy will dock their allowances...
Reagan, who does his homework, is often at his best fielding questions from the audience. When he gets a tough one, he quickly cocks his head, snaps "Well!" and then lays out his answers, adding: "Now. does that answer it to your satisfaction...
Love Games. To Francis the quest for an identity is almost identical with the opening of a fall college term. At 39, he is one of those banal people who believe that life is graded like a test, and that if one does one's homework, one will pass. He believes that his mythical titled parents are on watch and will claim him as their own once he passes the test of haute Kultur. He becomes a culture grind, slaving ardently at French cooking, memorizing the Almanack de Gotha, and mentally building a pyramid of ancient trivia...