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...Fuller wrinkle is a 44-question entrance exam-for parents, not children. Sample: "Do you believe it right that your child be spanked at school if he does wrong?" A "no" gets a fast rejection from Fuller, whose favorite cure for errants is whacking a child's outstretched palm with a ruler. Fuller's school is so besieged with applicants that he accepts only one out of ten. He now plans a new $100,000 school for 200 students. His current parents-doctors, lawyers, businessmen, two public-school teachers, a Democratic state representative-are all apparently delighted that...
HELEN LOUISE KINDELBERGER Palm Springs, Calif...
...Close, 61, owns a Las Vegas mortgage loan company, has a house with a palm tree growing through it. The top of the tree is spotlighted at night, now bears his campaign poster: M. D. CLOSE FOR GOVERNOR. His vague platform centers around a state lottery, which is illegal. But, platforms aside, he candidly admits: "I have a purpose in running-I wanna be elected...
Heady as Wine. The enormous stage (40,000 sq. yds.) supported such assorted distractions as Aztec temples, adobe huts, palm-tree jungles and a fishing fleet with speckled sails that bobbed in a harbor set at stage left. Dancers and singers, 700 strong, roamed about, some of them equipped with flaring torches. Concealed beneath fishermen's nets, the 120-man Vienna Symphony whipped out the music everyone had come to hear-a froth of billowy, bubbly Viennese tunes, as light and heady as the Nussberger wine that flowed before the performance. Through it all, the tenor sang of love...
...place where he can warm his thinning blood in the hot sun. Many of the less well-off have flocked to such geriatric capitals as St. Petersburg, Fla., where 28.1% of the population is 65 or over.* The more affluent might choose the expensive isolation of a palm-fringed plot in the Virgin Islands or a Pacific beach front in Southern California...