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...Adler, Paideia is a model within reach. He is preparing a manual, to be issued next year, that will help school systems and teachers implement the proposal. One teaching experiment has already been carried out at the Skyline High School in Oakland, Calif. Seventy-five students spent one year studying 50 of Adler's Great Books, using the Socratic method of pedagogy. The results, says Principal Nicholas Caputi, were "stellar," but some 80% of the students were classified as gifted anyway. A fuller test will come in Chicago, where Superintendent Ruth Love plans a pilot school that will give...
PRESUMED DEAD. Calvin Simmons, 32, maestro of the Oakland Symphony Orchestra; missing after a canoeing accident on Connery Pond, near Lake Placid, N.Y. Simmons conducted at England's prestigious Glyndebourne Festival and led many of the major orchestras in the U.S. He gained acclaim for his dynamism and adventurous programming. This month he was to have conducted a work of his favorite composer, Mozart's The Magic Flute, at the New York City Opera. Said Beverly Sills: "Cal had so much to offer. I just can't take...
...Oakland flash breaks the record and keeps on going
...mean personal quarrel between Rozelle and Al Davis, who were opposing commissioners before the National and American Football Leagues agreed to merge in 1966, has been as unseemly as the rest. Davis appears to have won his fight to relocate the Oakland Raiders in Los Angeles, though there remain one or two legal shots to be fired. Under an unusual interpretation of eminent domain, Oakland is busily trying to "nationalize" the Raiders, while Davis is hurriedly selling tickets in Los Angeles...
...Antitrust Act, he has also been trying end-around plays. Political football is not just an expression. The N.F.L.'s All-Stars lobbying team, featuring former Democratic National Committee Chairman Bob Strauss, is wheedling Congress to exempt the league from antitrust laws and make the exemption retroactive in Oakland's case. A slightly troubling side to this is that two new expansion franchises may soon be handed out, perhaps to Phoenix or Memphis or Birmingham or Jacksonville or Indianapolis, and Rozelle has made it pretty plain that he will wait to see how the congressional votes fall before...