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Lowell went first, and on third and eight converted to take a 14-8 lead (the extra-point attempt missed). Currier scored on its second play from scrimmage, as Norm Rice dragged three Lowell tacklers with him into the endzone. Rice repeated the performance on the conversion, and Currier had pulled out a 16-14 squeaker...
...Lakers traded guards Norm Nixon and Eddie Jordon to the San Diego Clippers in exchange for center Swen Nater and the rights to unsigned guard Byron Scott...
When Alonzo Crim, 55, took over as superintendent of Atlanta's schools in 1973, the first year that a court-ordered desegregation program went into effect, only 30% of students were reading at the national norm. Says Crim: "We had to focus on reading. Handling the language arts is perhaps the most fundamental building block to the whole educational program. If you can't read, write, speak and listen, you won't do anything else well." In June, Crim announced that the average student in kindergarten through tenth grade was reading at the national level; math achievement...
Scacchi's Olivia dominates Heat and Dust, since her experience is much more of a departure from the norm than Anne's simple quest for self-knowledge. Caught between the very proper English society which has colonized India and the ritualistic male-dominated Indian culture, Olivia falls victim to her own emotions, unable to sit at home waiting for her husband Douglas to return at night. Olivia's passions overpower her highly disciplined self-control, and she consequently dissipates after leaving her husband, living first as the prince's mistress and eventually alone...
...failure. The most useful insight of my life, which was also the most obvious, came from a 20-year-old girl who rarely read, whose chain smoking and social habits irritated me to exasperation, and whose chain smoking and social habits irritated me to exasperation, and whose malapropisms made Norm Crosby sound like Voltaire. And it came to me at a time when I was as far from the classroom as one can get. Han. a Crimson editor, is near a junior concentrating in American History and is affiliated with Dadley House. This article first appeared July...