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...equipment, from tape measures to stop watches. To encourage reading and writing, most of the materials have "activity cards" posing questions. Near a science book lying on a second-grade windowsill, for instance, the card asks: "Do you think our tree is a red maple tree? Look at the leaf on page 11 and sign your name under yes or no." Despite the appearance of chaos "the structure is far from haphazard," Mrs. Weber says. "It comes from what you decide to put in the classroom and how it's laid...
...polished-granite desk name plate, a baseball signed by Hank Aaron, a decorative wall carpet, a wristwatch, three bottles of liquor, a marble-headed golf putter, tennis rackets, fishing gear or hunting outfits, a box of King Edward Imperial cigars, and a real goose egg decorated with gold-leaf filigree and imitation pearls. The Governors' wives received pendants dangling a nugget of Georgia gold...
...recent years, students of the U.S. Supreme Court would leaf through new decisions in hopes of finding an opinion written by Hugo Black or John Harlan. Their extraordinary capacity to clarify and make vivid the issues in a case made their judgments preferred reading to serious scholars of the inexact science that is law. Because they often disagreed, there inevitably were cherished occasions when the two met head to head, as the writers of the major contending opinions. Black-more frequently in the majority-would crisply muster the facts and reasoning that led to the court's ruling...
...collage by Dennis Wheeler that incorporates a stylized face and some of the dark profession's paraphernalia. One of Wheeler's best remembered contributions was for the 1969 cover "The Sex Explosion." He used a color photograph of a nude couple seen behind a giant, zippered fig leaf...
...stocks and bonds," says Collector Nagy, who is a mechanic by trade. He has turned down offers of $1,500 to $2,000 for his prize card, a 1910 Honus Wagner. One of Reuss's most treasured cards is the first Bob Feller, issued by the now extinct Leaf Gum Co. in 1948. It was worth $35 until several other originals turned up, dropping its price to only...