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...fortress mentality is taken literally at Lindbergh Junior High in Long Beach, Calif. After a bullet zinged past the head of gym teacher Joan Reedy last year, the school spent $160,000 to build a 10-ft. wall to separate the rear boundary from a housing project and its gang gunfights. Reedy, for one, is pleased: "Teaching here is so much more relaxed. It's given us a sense of safety, and you can feel the unity of the school growing and growing...
Complacency would be a mistake, however: Hall's popularity may signal a geologic shift in late-night TV. The rise and fall of potential rivals to Carson -- from Alan Thicke to Joan Rivers -- has become an industry joke. But Hall is the first to catch on, and he has done it by reaching out to a new group of viewers. It is not Carson's audience, Hall likes to point out, but Carson's audience's children. "The Tonight show is an institution," says Steve Allen, who started it all back in 1954. "But with each tick of the clock...
Prompted in part by a rape in the Science Center last December, the discussion was intended to "provide more programs to create a network of women for things like moral support and career counseling," said Joan S. Soble '77, the chair of the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association (RCAA) which sponsored the seminar...
...rescue of endangered animals. Their music never hits the Top 40, but many a member of the Sierra Club or the National Audubon Society can hum their tunes and recite their lyrics by heart. To thousands of nature lovers, Oliver and Waldeck are to environmentalism what Bob Dylan and Joan Baez were to the antiwar movement...
People find this surprising. They think that a true stereophile should have the latest, cleanest musical mechanisms. But, as Joan Jett once said, I love rock'n roll, not its machinery. And defects and all, I like everything about L.P.'s. Everything. Scratches, warps, pressing the repeat button and playing the same side of an album all night. Everything...