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...contrast" to the violence in Boston, Louisville and other cities. Placid it was, but last week the New Orleans-based Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals found it inadequate as well. Noting that at least 41 of 117 schools in central Dallas and 27 of 30 in the predominantly black Oak Cliff section remained unintegrated, the court sent the plan back to Dallas district court and demanded a new version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Back to the Drawing Board | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

...probably couldn't come up for air for a long time, and besides, the owls had already spoken. And the sheep milled about and kept baaaaing angrily and burned the grass in effigy, and suddenly Derek the Duck waddled out of the pond and headed for the holy oak in the meadow. And the sheep ran around the duck and asked him to talk about why the Owls hadn't listened to them, but he wouldn't say anything. He just kept waddling towards the holy oak, surrounded by four bulldogs, and Archie the badger, John the fox, and Roso...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Derek the Duck and John the Fox | 4/29/1978 | See Source »

...sheep were very upset, and lay down in his path and wouldn't let him into the holy oak, so he climbed onto a private lily pad pulled by official Vard fish and sped off along the river. But before he left he quacked something about "another day in the life of a University duck," and then became quiet again...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Derek the Duck and John the Fox | 4/29/1978 | See Source »

This made the United Flock very mad, and they ran around the yard bleating loudly, and lit the grass on fire, and took over the holy oak and the duck pond and Roso the bear's lair and Archie the badger's house and John the fox's den and the nests of the council of owls, and fired all the goats, and told the sheep they could have hot apples again and they could eat whatever kind of food they wanted and could live wherever they wanted to. Then the United Flock sold the Aparkside rocks, and declared Vard...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: Derek the Duck and John the Fox | 4/29/1978 | See Source »

...Moniz and Stevens find a solution to this problem they may be able to help out Alvin Weinberg, director of the Institute of Energy Analysis in Oak Ridge, Tenn. He will try to answer the question: "How can we make nuclear energy acceptable?" in room 6 of the Faculty Club at 4 p.m. on Wednesday...

Author: By Gideon Gil, | Title: No Snappy Titles | 4/27/1978 | See Source »

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