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...traditionally provided a hopeful glimpse of the nation's future, and some people still imagine it to be a Rockwellian scene of mostly pink-cheeked children spelling out the adventures of Dick and Jane. But come for a moment to the playground of the Franklin elementary school in + Oakland, where black girls like to chant their jump-rope numbers in Chinese. "See you manana," one student shouts with a Vietnamese accent. "Ciao!" cries another, who has never been anywhere near Italy. And let it be noted that the boy who won the National Spelling Bee in Washington last month...
...find the Open a shade too diabolical even for golf, the United States Golf Association's Sandy Tatum is fond of saying, "We're not trying to mortify the world's greatest golfer. We're trying to identify him." Twice now they have identified him as Andy North. At Oakland Hills outside Detroit, North won again this year, the same way he did seven fitful and winless summers ago at Cherry Hills near Denver, with a bogey on the last hole and an expression of chagrin...
...reach to the Pacific and even to the Indian Ocean. He had taught Navy communications in San Diego, had served in the Pacific as communications watch officer aboard the nuclear-powered carrier Enterprise and had been in charge of communications security at the Alameda Naval Air Station near Oakland. He was familiar with the Navy's Indian Ocean activities thanks to two tours of duty at the highly secret base on the remote island of Diego Garcia. The FBI claimed that Whitworth had operated "at the heart of Navy communications." Retired Rear Admiral Eugene Carroll called him "a dream agent...
...Oakland 5, Boston...
...heart of a prodigious index to the Great Books. In addition, he started and still directs the Institute for Philosophical Research, which is devoted to publishing learned tracts. He passionately pushes his Paideia program, an experimental educational system that is imbuing selected elementary and high schools in Atlanta, Oakland and Chicago with a rigorous curriculum taught in part by the Socratic method. Adler's prescription for such sustained productivity: "I take almost no exercise, and I work harder every year than the year before...