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...world statesman, not just a politician, to the folks back home. Jimmy Carter prescribed for himself precisely that tonic last September: he was suffering a decline in the polls, and his closest adviser, Bert Lance, was fighting a losing battle for his job. Carter planned to visit nine countries in eleven days, starting Nov. 22. But last week he decided to call off the four-continent whirlwind -and thus became the first President to unpack his bags on the eve of a major, announced foreign trip since Dwight Eisenhower was prevented from going to Japan in 1960 because of anti...
...confronted three options: go ahead with the trip, 'cancel it, or postpone it until late December or early January, before Congress reconvenes. They settled on the third option, recognizing that because of the difficulty in lining up so many heads of state, Carter might have to visit the nine nations in two separate journeys...
...prosecuted as a collaborator after the war. Only in 1948, three years before her death, did Charlotte tell her son that his father was Hitler. By that time Loret was married, and the news caused his wife to leave him. Of the couple's nine children, three live with Loret in St. Quentin, a French town north of Paris...
More alarming is the fact that nine out of ten high school students attend small-city and rural institutions or quiet suburban schools, and that these schools, once the very symbols of the best the U.S. could do for its children, are also suffering from a profound malaise. For the 55% or so of American teen-agers who do not go on to college, high school is the apex of their formal educational career; they will prosper or join the ranks of the unemployed largely on the basis of what the schools teach them...
...university or propose "study projects," in which they can tackle anything from music to horse training. Yet, as at Medford and Coos Bay, the easier route beguiles many. To graduate, students must complete 180 hours of graded coursework, including 45 hours in language arts (which must include nine terms of English), 15 hours in science and 30 in social studies. But only slightly more than half the coursework is prescribed, and full credit is given for such courses as American Teen-Ager and Interior Decorating. One disgruntled teacher brands them "education by entertainment...