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...postponement of elections has not slowed down Sanjay Gandhi, 29, a whiz-kid automotive designer and increasingly vocal supporter of his mother's policies. Sanjay, who until the emergency was preoccupied with his automobile factory in New Delhi, flies around the country, talking before mass rallies, giving pep talks to party leaders and calling at family-planning clinics. "The future generation will not judge India just on the basis of one election," he told reporters after the electoral delay. "The future generation will want a strong economy." Perhaps so, but some cynics are beginning to wonder if the grooming...
...students-75% of whom come from single-parent households-signed "contracts" pledging, among other things, to encourage their children to read to them and "to provide ... a quiet, well-lighted area for regular study." For their part, teachers undertook to work closely with parents. Together they staged reading festivals, pep rallies and open houses. Grant officials say that roughly a third of the parents became "intensively involved" and that in one year their 400 children recorded average reading-score gains of 1.1 years-a month above the U.S. average. Moreover, discipline improved; absenteeism and vandalism decreased...
...Houston-have become increasingly black because a large number of whites have moved to the suburbs. Another pattern of resegregation occasionally takes place within desegregated schools when students are simply assigned to segregated classes. Sometimes the black students segregate themselves. For example, at the season's first pep rally this year at Indian River High School in Chesapeake, Va., all the blacks sat on one side of the gym while the whites sat on the other Says Dorothy Polk of Charlotte, N.C.: "Black children tend not to join in as much, and this is a matter of concern...
Autumn is a season of bonfires, pep rallies, red-dogs and touchdowns-as well as the time for presidential candidates to make their climactic quadrennial sprint toward Election Day. "Both football and press-the-flesh politics are peculiarly American institutions," says Associate Editor James Atwater, the writer of this week's cover story who has observed those peculiarities at close hand for three decades...
...people. That initial one was inspired by French Laywoman Marie Tamisier to foster devotion to the Eucharist and belief in Christ's "real presence" in the elements of bread and wine. Like the 40 subsequent congresses, it was an occasion for spiritual fervor, a kind of all purpose pep rally...