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Engaged. Edward Mezvinsky, 38, recently divorced Democratic Representative from Iowa and a junior member of the House Judiciary Committee that reported three articles of impeachment against former President Nixon; and Marjorie Sue Margolies, thirtyish, a reporter for NBC-TV News. It will be the first marriage for Margolies, who has two adopted daughters, one from Korea and one from Viet Nam; the second for Mezvinsky, the father of four daughters. The couple plan an October wedding...
...large and small ones are in operation, or nearly 17 for each of Japan's 35,400 primary and secondary schools. Fully 6 million of Japan's 10 million primary school students attend juku in the hope of bettering their chances of getting into the top junior and senior high schools, some of which accept only one in 20 applicants. Millions more go to other juku to prepare for college. The recent coming of affluence has also brought juku that prep children for kindergarten-and even some that ease the way into other juku...
Quality varies widely. One of the best-regarded juku, Tokyo's Nippon Shingaku Kyoshitsu (Japanese Entrance Examination School), is so popular that children commute to its Sunday sessions from distant areas by jet plane and bullet train. Some 2,600 pupils -all sixth-graders propping for the junior high entrance exam-attend the school. A typical class starts at 8:30 a.m. and continues for 50 minutes with the teacher asking questions and 100 pupils chanting back the answers. ("When did the Russo-Japanese war break out?" "When was the League of Nations formed?") Recently, a visitor asked...
...government began granting regular commissions to conscript officers, who previously had received merely militia commissions. Groups of disgruntled regulars-captains and majors-thus began meeting in secret sessions to vent their frustrations. Eventually, these discussions broadened to include political and social topics. By December 1973, a nucleus of junior officers was already thinking of ways to overthrow the Caetano regime...
Died. Gary Sanders, 25, popular pro golfer; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Buena Park, Calif. At 16, Sanders won the U.S. Junior Amateur Golf Championship, then turned pro after college and earned $22,665 during last year's tour, which included a victory in Florida's Amelia Island Open. He was competing in the Western Open in June when he learned he had lymph-gland cancer, which was thought to be unrelated to his death...