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...Bureaucrat Carl T. Noll, with his Dachau common-grave mentality, may have backed off at Grafton National Cemetery [July 21], but I am still disturbed that there may be similar exhumations to come elsewhere. When can we expect the arrival of his bulldozers and plastic urns at Gettysburg and Petersburg, where my two greatgrandfathers lie in honor...
...What about the ones who fail? Says Louisiana Certification Director Jacqueline Lewis: "Obviously they're moving out of state to teach in states where the tests are not required." The results of basic achievement tests taken by job applicants at Florida's Pinellas County school board (St. Petersburg, Clearwater) are not encouraging. Since 1976, the board has required teacher candidates to read at an advanced tenth-grade level and solve math problems at an eighth-grade level. Though all had their B.A. in hand, about one-third of the applicants (25% of the whites, 79% of the blacks...
Gogol had no particular town, government or country in mind when he concocted his play; his target was the pathetic mendacity of everyone, everywhere. The rural officials who mistake a visiting landowner's son for an inspector general from Petersburg show off every human failing, but in shriveled, impoverished versions. They cower from their own defects like they cower from the rest of the world. Their sins, they protest, are "sinlets...
...rush hour on a foggy morning in Tampa Bay last week, and traffic was heavy on the 15-mile-long Sunshine Skyway, a chain of five bridges and six causeways that links St. Petersburg with Bradenton and Sarasota. Thundershowers and fierce winds lashed the bay from time to time. Suddenly, at 7:38 a.m., the Summit Venture, a 609-ft. Liberian-registered freighter that had been heading for Tampa to pick up a cargo of phosphate, smashed into a bridge abutment. A 1,300-ft. stretch of roadway trembled violently, then ripped away from the bridge. Steel and concrete crashed...
Richard Hornbuckle, 60, of St. Petersburg was driving with three companions just behind the doomed vehicles. Said he: "As I came to the top of the bridge, I saw metal sticking out of the edge. I applied mY brakes immediately and stopped about two feet from going in. My God, what a horrible sight!" Said Jay Hirsch, another eyewitness: "The first thing I did was look for heads bobbing in the water. There were none...