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Devalued Diploma. The result: in the past year, "minimal competency testing" has become the hottest new catch phrase in public education. Described by educators as a "man on the street" effort to halt the devaluation of a high school diploma, minimal competency requires students to pass proficiency exams, in addition to course work, in order to graduate. So far, six states -California, Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia and Washington-have enacted minimal competency laws. Florida has also outlawed traditional "social passing," by which illiterate students eventually graduated after merely attending school enough years. In ten more states, boards of education...
AMERICAN SCENE Second Hottest Show in Town...
...hottest show in Washington is, of course, the advent of the new Administration. Without question, the second hottest show is the spectacular new National Air and Space Museum. Attendance for the first six months has reached more than 5 million, nearly double the projections. TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin has touched down in the museum almost a dozen times. His report...
...first nine months, profit rose less than 6%. Estimates are that earnings will more than triple this year and will rise a further 60% or more in 1978.* Reflecting these great expectations, BP common has almost tripled since the start of 1975, to $13.44, making it Britain's hottest industrial stock...
They sat in their cars, obviously the hottest around--Chuck, in a 1969 Camaro, brand-new 454 modified stock engine they came out with that year, Holly carbs, and Elvin in a '68 Mach I, special Ford 427 four-speed, a quick rear end, a 3.97 I think. Both cars had huge tires wrapped around Cragar mags, jacked-up front-and-rear. Bootleg cars, the epitome of American technology devoted, as it so often is, to breaking the law. And because I was just as drunk as they were, and very nearly as foolish, I stood out between them with...