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...Some storytellers filled in the blank with s.o.b.). Newman says that Diefenbaker threatened to make the paper public to ensure his re-election on an anti-U.S. issue but changed his mind after U.S. Ambassador Livingston Merchant informed him that all further dealings between the two chiefs of state would then become impossible...
Restless Ladies. Working at what? That is the problem. There seem to be more applicants than suitable jobs. Three San Francisco women, Jean Livingston, Apple Walker and Polly Lawrence, with children ranging from 9 to 18, turned their dissatisfaction with charity work to profit by forming a public relations firm called Ideas Inc. to handle publicity for charity benefits and a few commercial accounts. Teaching appeals to many. "Frankly," says a Mount Holyoke alumna (1946) with four children, "I think teaching is the best bet for me because it's the best way to use my education and still...
Paper Curtain. New York's worst affliction is the paper curtain that separates teachers in the classroom from administrators at "Livingston Street," or Board of Education headquarters, an ugly box of a building in Brooklyn that once housed the Elks of the region. Livingston Street is awash with able, well-intentioned administrators, but most of them live by the numbers and have lost touch with the troops in the trenches. Teachers have to punch time clocks, use rigid "lesson plans" that often do not match student needs. They find principals too busy to talk-and principals in turn find...
Many vital problems never reach Livingston Street. Requests to fix a falling ceiling vanish in a Byzantine fog. It may take years to get an updated syllabus in math or science. Everyone has horror stories about "The System," including Superintendent Gross, the highly skilled administrator who arrived from Pittsburgh last spring to try to bring order out of chaos. "I know one girl who was in the building for six hours just looking for someone to find a job application for teaching," says Gross with cool fury. "I'm going to humanize this system if I have to turn...
...know two who preceded him: my husband, Ray Evans (lyric writer), and his collaborator, Jay Livingston (composer), who wrote such un-Indian songs as Mona Lisa, Buttons and Bows, Tammy, and Que Sera Sera. Lined up with their three Oscars are two peace pipes which they smoke after they argue about their pentameters and their pianissimos. They were taken into the Seneca Tribe of New York State about twelve years ago as Chief Words-Come-Easy and Chief Flowing Rhythm...