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...afraid to take a chance at something for fear of failure. This 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 malapropisms made Norm Crosby sound like Voltaire. And it came to me at a time when I was as far from the classroom...
...stature. Feminism for him doesn't mean that women have broken a little loose of the social straitjacket that once forbade them to call a man on the phone; initiate a choice of sexual partners rather than accept what circumstance deals them; or deviate from the admen's norm in clothing, speech and thought. No, the world since women's lib has become a terrifying jungle for nice guys who never did anyone any harm; nowadays they can't even watch television without fearing that the Amazons will burst in, hunting hapless creatures to bend to their incomprehensible whim...
...Challenger crew members also activated an array of zero-g experiments, some, like a biological-materials separation test for making Pharmaceuticals, of potential commercial value. The space team acted as guinea pigs for Mission Specialist Norm Thagard, 39, the second medical doctor to fly the shuttle. He was trying to learn why some astronauts suffer from a form of queasiness known as space-adaptation syndrome during the initial hours of weightlessness. At the astronauts' request, Mission Control no longer publicly discusses medical problems during a flight. But judging by the demeanor of the five during television broadcasts from Challenger...
...DIED. Norm Van Brocklin, 57, combative quarterback who during his twelve-year (1949-60) pro career led the Los Angeles Rams and the Philadelphia Eagles to National Football League championships; of a heart attack; in Monroe, Ga. A cool playmaker despite his hot temper, the "Dutchman" in a 1957 game completed 27 passes for 554 yds., a record that still stands. After his final playing season, he became the coach of the newly formed Minnesota Vikings, and later of the Atlanta Falcons, compiling respectable if losing records...
...past decade's educational pandering to student enthusiasms and taxpayers' tight pockets. The state, which once boasted the wealthiest and most prestigious school system in the nation, is now below the U.S. average virtually across the board. In 1972 California students scored nine points above the national norm on College Board achievement tests in English; in 1981 they were 17 points under. Last year California ranked 50th in the percentage of personal income that went into school revenues...