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Catherine Chatas Royal Oak, Mich...
David Jensen, 38, a real estate broker in West Bloomfield, Mich., has traditionally bought a new car every two years. He purchased his fully equipped Lincoln Town Car for $13,000 in 1979. Last week Jensen returned to his dealer's showroom to eye the new Continental, but he quickly became another victim of what Detroit calls "sticker shock." The price on the car's window: $25,692. Says he: "Damn, that is expensive! It persuaded me to keep driving my '80 until it won't go any more. Then I'm going...
Like most Great Society efforts, Follow Through survived on a year-to-year basis, largely because concerned parents lobbied for its funding. This fall, at their annual conference in Ypsilanti, Mich., Follow Through directors were glum. Though this year's program managed to survive Reaganomic budget cutting and win authorization for $45 million for fiscal 1982, federal money is due to dry up in 1984. When the states take charge of federal funds through block grants, Follow Through may fall by the wayside...
...Dort Elementary School in Flint, Mich., 25 Follow Through kindergarten children sit quietly in neat rows working on assignments. At the front of the room the teacher is drilling four children on reading. Imperious, she snaps her fingers to signal for the answer, which the children chorus together. The children seem secure and interested, but they know they will not be asked for an individual response until after the chorus. When it is time to read, they follow a bright red arrow across the page from left to right to remind them that reading is done from left to right...
...more evident than in the nation's supermarket basket and at the dinner table. Presbyterian Minister Sylvester Graham started the bulk wagon rolling in the 19th century with his famous cracker. Later Post and Kellogg began cleaning digestive systems with flakes of bran and corn in their Battlecreek, Mich., sanatoriums. With cheerful innocence, Americans have periodically embarked on reordering themselves, as well as the country and the world. The current obsession with the body can partly be seen as a diminished expression of the old or of unquenchable American optimism. "Here's for the plain old Adam...