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...possibility of strikes, curriculum cutbacks, busing problems and even school closings, says David Fleishhacker, headmaster of the Katherine Delmar Burke School in San Francisco, parents cannot be sure what public schools will be like from year to year. "Private schools seem more stable." Says San Francisco Child Specialist Jeanne Lepper: "Parents think, 'Oh, my God, if my child doesn't make it at the beginning he won't have a chance later...
Some federal officials agree that attempts to apply equal opportunity in the loftier reaches of academe have been somewhat ill considered. But Dr. Mary M. Lepper of HEW's Office for Civil Rights counters that too often "women and minorities are being hired and let go -it is a revolving door." She adds that Lester's complaints about ruptured faculty traditions and standards are "based in mythology." In fact, surveys have shown that from 1968 to 1972, the number of blacks on college faculties increased only from 2.2% to 2.9%, the number of women from...
...Diego, 13-year-old Lionel Dodson sat down and wrote a letter to a 12-year-old neighbor girl named Joan Lepper. "You will never know how much I love you ... I want you to have my bicycle. . . ." Then he killed himself by putting the muzzle of his .22 caliber rifle to his ear and pulling the trigger. ¶ In Denton, Texas, a 14-year-old Palo Pinto County farm girl named Eva Lee Knoop got into a taxicab, showed the driver a .22 revolver, ordered, "Get out of Texas." He headed for Oklahoma. Hours later, gun still in hand...
With him was his "socialist dog," born under Prince von Starhemberg's Fascist guns in 1934, which had accompanied Gedye through all his travels. Due back with him shortly, too, is blond, fortyish Madame Lepper, ex-Austrian civil servant, British by marriage, who started as Gedye's secretary, is now almost his collaborator...
...days of such newspaper appeals brought impressive results: 2,000 volunteers in 48 hours, including 100 Princeton University students, scores of husky lads from the athletic leagues sponsored by New Jersey police departments, three sailors on shore leave. Perhaps Major Lepper had found the magic formula for recruiting workers. Said the New York Sun: "There's something about a request for male brawn that can't be swept aside. It's like trying to walk by those muscle-testing machines at the fair...