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...performs marriages, buries the dead, and prescribes medical treatment, e.g., keep newborn babies in a dark room with a small green light. The school's teachings are imparted by three apostles, one of them a former logger, who train the young in such arts as standing on their index fingers and making valentines for "Uncle Bill" Wolsey. The archbishop himself handles a course in sex education...
Martin's concern was shared by many as the market fell lower. But at midweek, having fallen steadily for seven days to dip below 600 on the Dow-Jones industrial index for the first time in more than a year, the market staged a short-lived rally. It recovered a gain at week's end to close at 605.83, off just 3.96 for the week...
Most heartening proof of stability, as the economists see it: the plateau achieved by the wholesale commodity price index-down two-tenths of a point in the past year. Another sign, but less significant because it covers more luxuries and services: the Labor Department's consumer price index shows that living costs dipped slightly in January (one-tenth of 1%) for the second consecutive month-the first time since 1956 that decreases have come back to back...
...stoning cops in a riot that left 70 farmers and 50 police injured. By general agreement, France's farmers had legitimate cause for complaint: although they make up 25% of the population, they get only 10% of the national income.* De Gaulle's abolition of a parity index hitching farm prices to market prices had hit them hard. But the indignant farmers at Amiens (pop.100,000) were pushed into a rampaging mood by right-wing agitators who broke up their gathering with cries of "Vive null and "Algerie Française !" The head of the farmers' group...
...from the National Science Foundation, Karplus set out to "isolate a small number of ideas that underlie all natural phenomena," make these understandable to children by "direct intuitive perception." He first tackled the concepts of position and direction, developed a course called "coordinates." He taught teachers to hook their index fingers together and pull. Said he: "That's the beginning of Newton's Third Law."- Using his curriculum's careful exposition of contact, field and frictional forces, teachers and pupils brought wood blocks, rubber bands, magnets, Band-Aid boxes and buttons to class, found them suddenly interesting...