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...corporate community relations, "Our ^ research indicated that there was a lack of high-interest materials. We thought we could motivate students to read through a careful use of TIME." Ester Connelly, who manages the Time Education Program in Yardley, Pa., was charged with devising a curriculum outline and one-day training course that would enable volunteers to teach reading and vocabulary through use of the magazine's advertisements, headlines and captions, as well as its articles...
...Walt Disney World, the snappy patter is left to the guides on the trams that whisk visitors from the car lot to one of the two main parks: the Magic Kingdom--which is basically Disneyland East--and the sprawling Epcot Center. (One-day admission: $23 for adults, $19 for kids.) "No smoking--foreign, domestic or homegrown," one guide sasses near Epcot's 18-story Spaceship Earth geosphere. "You know what Epcot means?" another asks near closing time. "Every Person Comes Out Tired." In fact, the acronym stands for Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. It was Disney's conceit to create...
Last week's action fell short of a total shutdown. According to the Association of Chambers of Commerce of South Africa, between 70% and 100% of the black work force in major urban areas participated in the one-day strike. As many as 1 million students boycotted their classes. Unfortunately, the protest was marred by the deaths of at least seven blacks in widespread rioting at the end of the day...
...community address every issue of concern to said community? We could, any one of us who presented papers, have selected Farrakhan as a topic but we did not, for whatever reasons; we also did not address other equally critical problems (such as the alarming rise of teenage mothers, with the attendant strain on the Black community and long-range disastrous effects for the parties involved). There are many, many crucial issues facing the Black community today, and I quite frankly think it unreasonable to expect a one-day conference to cover, in whole or in part, any great number...
...bridegroom, who afterward treated 150 or so guests, including John Travolta, Donna Summer and Bruce Jenner, to a sit-down dinner, followed by dancing to Righteous Brothers' songs performed by Bill Medley. After a twirl on the dance floor that left guests mesmerized, the couple dashed off for a one-day honeymoon at a Los Angeles hotel. Next morning Sly and "Gitte" were back at work on the set of their conjugal star vehicle, Cobra--an action movie, of course. Rocky and Rambo never did have much time for relationships...