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...year. But whatever they cost, the schools do seem to excel at training in basic skills, personal courtesy and classroom decorum. A cross section of Christian schools-Christian Liberty Academy. "Government schools are a taxpayer rip-off and a blight on our students," says the Rev. Paul Lindstrom, 41, head of the Christian Liberty Academy in the Chicago suburb of Prospect Heights. A former inner-city schoolteacher, Lindstrom founded the academy in 1968 partly to oppose what he saw as creeping socialism in the public school curricula. Today, 150 students (preschool through twelfth grade) get a stiff dose of moral...
...academy proudly reports measurable results of this curriculum, taught in strict classrooms by teachers who view their work not as a job but as a calling: the five-year-olds, who attend for only half-days, read fluently. Academy students generally test one or two years above national norms. Lindstrom is unabashed about the mix of politics and morals in his classrooms. Says he: "We espouse all the views of the Moral Majority, and then some...
Ingrid's Swedish husband, Fetter Lindstrom, a brain surgeon, persuaded her to smooth her frown, lay office cream and the fourth martini. He also advised her to emulate Garbo by keeping her garrulous mouth shut. On a movie set she stood up to directors; in real life she was easily led. Someone even had to tell her to abandon her marriage. Combat Photographer Robert Capa, whom she met in Paris after the war, tried. They loved each other, but he was not the marrying sort...
...history of the sport. "I used to think boxers were all big muscle but no brain. It isn't true," burbles the ringside reporter. Signorina Rossellini is also a New York correspondent for a weekly Italian news show and often turns for pointers to Stepsister Pia Lindstrom, an NBC correspondent. The final judgment comes from Father Roberto, who watches Isabella on the air in Rome and assesses her performances. Says Isabella: "I hate to take orders from home, but he's a damn good director...
...Boston, concedes that "some of the writing in the memos was not good." But, he adds: "We obviously are advocates for the implementation of the Constitution. When we started this study we had a feeling there was more positive evidence for desegregation than appeared on the surface." Dissenter Lindstrom speaks for the critics, however, when he argues that it might have been possible to "prove the same damn thing" if the commission had used an unbiased approach. He adds: "I don't think the report proves desegregation does not work. It just doesn't prove anything...