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...superintendent of public instruction, voiced the wide spread frustration with the textbook dilemma when he asked a convocation of 43 educators and 50 representatives from 16 publishing houses, "Who is in charge?" The answer is everybody and nobody. Certainly not Honig, though his voice has been one of the loudest and most persistent calling for textbook reform. In his own state, below fifth grade a zoo story may not include such words as beaver, parrot, goat - and zoo. A California anti-junk-food lobby's taboo still limits references to ice cream, cake...
...mission was among the most spectacular in the 26-year history of the American space program. It was designed to demonstrate that the U.S. is once again roving the high frontier and showing plenty of the right stuff. The loudest cheerleader was President Ronald Reagan. "You demonstrated that we can work in space in ways that we never imagined were possible," he radioed the four-man, one-woman crew of Discovery. If the President has his way, nightly news viewers "ain't seen nothin' yet." Reagan wants to launch a permanent space station by 1992 (the 500th anniversary...
Crowded around an eight foot-wide television screen, and watched over by a portrait of John F. Kennedy '40, the roughly 120 people in attendance applauded loudest when a network finally projected some electoral votes for Mondale--the three in the District of Columbia...
...other members of the audience to listen," Bok invokes the maxim: "Your freedom to swing your first stops at the point of my nose." Bok could have gone further; absent is perhaps the most potent argument against the hecklers--that the democracy they epitomize is one in which the loudest voices prevail, which is no democracy to speak...
...Chuck Mangione jazz over the loudspeakers. When each of the 45 foreign delegations was introduced, the velodrome in downtown San Salvador reverberated with the applause of 6,000 spectators. U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, his placid expression breaking into a grin, received the second longest ovation. But the loudest and wildest cheers went to the onetime civil engineer whose appearance on the stage elicited thunders of "Duarte! Duarte! Duarte!" After taking the oath of office from Julia Castillo Rodas, head of the Legislative Assembly, he waved his arms above his head, then kissed his country's flag. Declared...