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...capacious world of light brick and tile carved underground. Montreal Metro is a marvel of cleanliness - quietness and efficiency. Long-blue-stylish trains glide smoothly on inflated rubber tires over steel rail. If Reagan cared at all for America, they would restore New York's frightful subway...
They came by car, by train (but not by plane, in deference to the striking air controllers), in thousands of chartered buses and even on the city's Metro, which was free to all riders for the day. They gathered in Washington last Saturday for a protest rally of a size and vehemence not seen since the antiwar marches of a decade ago. The event was billed as Solidarity Day and organized by the AFL-CIO, which "rented" the subway for $65,000. On hand were more than 250,000 union members, civil rights activists, environmentalists and others enraged...
Improvement is generally attributed to increased parental involvement and classroom attention to basic skills. But how real is the progress? Bearing such nicknames and acronyms as CAT, ITBS, CTBS and METRO,* a bewildering battery of tests annually churns out statistics in "percentiles," "grade levels" or "stanines" (a scoring system based on nine that occupies only a single column on a computer punch card). Quite often, these obscure as much as they reveal. A month after New York school officials had boasted about the big jump in average test scores, parents of more than a fifth of the city...
DIED. David Weisz, 70, international auctioneer who through his Los Angeles-based company, International Fastener Research Corp., bought and sold the Harland & Wolff Shipyards in Belfast, all the props and costumes of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio in Culver City, Calif, and the Robert Hall chain of clothing stores, which he sold off individually; in Los Angeles...
...direction break no new ground, and provoke little thought. Sentimental and airy. I Sent a Letter to My Love is more posicard than epistle, asking little of the sender, and demanding little from the recipient. Is is just the sort of gossamer summery flick that may challenge The Last Metro for top spot at the Welles...