Word: niantic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...burdens imposed by home schooling can be formidable. "I wouldn't recommend it to everyone," says Housewife Eileen Trombly of Niantic, Conn., who for a time schooled all three of her daughters at home. "The house went to pot," she recalls. "The kids were home all the time." Then too there is the problem of disapproval from neighbors. "People in the community think we're fanatics," says Robert Sessions, a philosophy teacher at Iowa's Luther College, "when we're really pretty ordinary people...
...Ellis Niantic...
...disturbed, however, by Mr. Trippett's failure to mention the lawsuits that might result if some of these tribes win their claims. For example, will the Pequot Indians return to the Niantic Indians the lands they stole in the early 17th century? Will the Pawnee return the lands they stole from the Sioux and Cheyenne? Will the Iroquois return all the land they stole from the Huron, the Tobacco, the Erie, the Conestoga and the Illinois...
...institution that is rigorously trying the free-choice approach is the so-called Just Community in Niantic, Conn. Parole is granted only after a pre-determined sentence is served, and there is no connection between getting out and participating in the educational and other-special rehabilitative programs that are offered. The main effort is to get the prisoners?both men and women?to participate in running the prison and to learn to be responsible for their own action. All decisions are left up to the majority, with guards and prisoners entitled to one vote each. "They're the ones...