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...McLeod (pop. 50), N. Dak., Teacher Janice Herbranson, 51, has served breakfast to her three pupils. After morning lessons, she will cook lunch. At day's end, if the parents are away, she may take one of her charges home with her to spend the night. At the Lennep school near Montana's Crazy Mountains, Second-Grader Lee Cavender, 7, barges in to say that his sisters, twins who constitute the entire seventh grade, will be absent today. They turned 13 over the weekend, old enough for deer-hunting licenses, and, of course, their father has taken them shooting. With...
Beyond such homely practicality lies a reawakened national concern for some faded educational verities, among them the close teacher-pupil contact that was much in evidence last week at Lennep. There, beneath pictures of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, Carol Sevalstad, 33, glided through the mellow buzz of a dozen children in six grades. When Lee Cavender tripped over his second-grade arithmetic game on Lennep's computer, Sevalstad untangled him. Then she turned to a Lilliputian table where two first graders were hard at their reading. "I want to spend a lot of time on reading with the first...
...perfection in the one-room schoolhouse. November sport at Hanging Woman is a snow-swept game of croquet in a tiny school yard ringed by a wire fence that keeps out stray cattle but not, alas, bull snakes (Brown killed three of them earlier this year). At Lennep, science lab may be watching Alka-Seltzer tablets dissolve at varying speeds in glasses of cold, warm and hot water. Socially, too, youngsters nurtured in the gentle intimacy of a one roomer may tend at first to be loners, and lonely, when tossed into a big high school...
Padi is thought to be the first Egyptian mummy to come to the United States with its complete burial set. He arrived at MGH in 1823 as the gift of a Dutch merchant, Jacob Van Lennep, an MGH spokesman said...
Says Emile van Lennep, secretary general of the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development: "In the industrialized democracies, we let the success of the 1960s go to our heads. In responding to the aspirations of our people, we allowed our economies to become overloaded, overregulated and insufficiently profitable. We overdid it." The stagflation engendered by the post-1973 oil price crisis eroded both tax revenues and purchasing power. Swelling unemployment added to relief rolls. Yet even as the resources to pay for them shrank, government outlays for social services kept growing. The squeeze on national budgets may require...