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...well as tennis courts, soccer fields and other athletic facilities. "The population keeps growing," says Major General Vladimir Shatalov, director of cosmonaut training at Star City. "Now we've got about 3,000 people, including the wives and kids of space workers. We've even got a kindergarten population problem...
...whole thing" was an attempt by John R. Coleman, 51, a former Ford Foundation executive and now president of Haverford College, to break what he calls "the lockstep"-the educational process that leads in a straight line from kindergarten through graduate school, and often onward into the walled-in offices of academia. Coleman is a labor economist (among his books is Labor Problems, 1953), but the idea of actually going out and doing physical labor first occurred to him three years ago when he heard about the clash between hardhat construction workers and antiwar student demonstrators on Wall Street. "That...
...unwanted child who was kicked out of kindergarten for being "incorrigible," Bunyard also came under the California Youth Authority early in life, but he graduated to more severe correctional institutions. That he should never have been released was once strongly implied by Bunyard himself. In 1967, as he walked out of the San Mateo honor camp, he told an officer: "I don't want to go out there. I feel like a puppy that you're putting on the freeway. I don't think I can make it out there." Eventually the puppy turned into a monster...
...Kaspar. Here four white figures emerge beneath what appears to be a giant morning glory about to devour the piano. Each announces, "I came into the world..." and begins a work which consists of nothing but confessional sentences beginning with "I." Amid a set that looks like Design Research kindergarten toys, the actors deliver such lines as "I learned to distinguish between nouns and verbs," "I appropriated property in disregard of the general welfare," "I opened my eyes during sexual intercourse." It's all very interesting--for the first three minutes...
Last spring, when Matthew entered kindergarten, Joan decided to return after 20 years to nursing school. Every day she makes the round trip of 120 miles from Alloway to Philadelphia General Hospital's School of Nursing, attends six to eight hours of classes and returns home to cook, shop, clean, study and mother her seven children...