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Governor Volpe today is expected to name former Newton mayor Howard Whitmore Jr. '29 as commissioner of the Metropolitan District Commission, replacing Robert F. Murphy, whose term expires today...
That may well be the case at nearby Newton High School, guinea pig for most of the new curriculum changes. Four Harvard professors are teaching classes in social studies there, and students take advanced-placement exams in ten of the twelve available subjects. "I don't think we have a program here that was going ten years ago," says Principal Richard Mechem. The latest change: overhauling vocational training, which reflects a new-and overdue -concern of U.S. education...
...reformers of today believe in total renewal because, in the words of Dr. Harvey Cox of Andover Newton Theological School, "the existing pattern of the church is no longer in touch with real life." One sure sign is that Christianity is not keeping up with the growth of humanity. In the U.S., 57% of the population claim membership in Christian churches. But the rate of increase for most denominations today is somewhat below the general population growth, and many church leaders wonder how many of their faithful are the occidental equivalent of "rice Christians"-those who would abandon their faith...
MICHAEL RIBOTTA Don Bosco College Newton...
...state troopers, masquerading as prospective buyers of the drug, arranged a meeting with Stephen Norris, 21, of Newton, and then arrested him when he arrived at the rendezvous point on Lawrence...