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...been as much as 2½ years behind the norm for their grade in reading. From now on, however, students in grades four through eight will not be promoted if they are more than a year behind. Even under the new policy, slow readers would not be forced to languish year after year in the same grade. Except in rare cases, students will not be held back more than once in elementary and once in junior high. Those who repeatedly fail to meet eighth-and ninth-grade standards will nonetheless eventually be admitted to high school...
Still, investigators for both the Cox staff and the Senate Watergate committee are understandably curious as to why Rebozo would allow $100,000 to languish for three years in a safe-deposit box in his Key Biscayne bank, as he claims, where he could not even collect interest on it. Moreover, one of the payments was made on the very day that Rebozo and Robert Abplanalp, apparently as a favor to the President, were concluding a deal to buy a chunk of Nixon's property in San Clemente...
...Georgia has filed suit to overturn presidential impoundments of funds that were authorized by Congress. Georgia wants the Supreme Court Justices to hear the case directly-without the delays of the appeals procedure.* Bork might well have opposed such a move, preferring to let the question of presidential power languish for a while in lower courts. Instead last month, Bork agreed with Georgia that the impoundment issue should be faced now by the court...
CAHILL: UNITED STATES MARSHAL is John Wayne, a Texas lawman who scours the Panhandle for bad guys while his two young sons languish at home, yearning for a little fatherly affection. The sons fall into bad company, get mixed up in a bank robbery and have to be extracted from their trouble by Duke, who promises to spend more time at home in the future. Cahill is a poky, disorganized sort of western, typical of the work of Andrew V. McLaglen (The Way West, The Undefeated), a director on whom Wayne seems to call as he might summon a foreman...
institutions generally single out a few stocks-including IBM, Xerox, Polaroid and ITT-for the big play. "This is an airshaft market," complains Shearson Hammill Vice President Lee Silberman. "A hundred or so blue chips move up and down while other stocks languish...