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Last year, the Crimson organized the offense with two setters, seniors Louise Horn and Ray Kinoshita (who is taking time off this fall), two tall middle blockers, Rusty Baker and Liz Peterson, and two hitters, Schoofs and Val Romero. Sophomore Isabel Holland, who saw-action as the all-important seventh man, may replace Kinoshita this season, but with a group of talented freshmen expected to try out, no positions are secure...
...Peterson, chief of the U.S. Forest Service, earns $50,112.50 a year. So does Associate Chief Douglas Leisz. So, in fact, do the five deputy chiefs below Leisz, the eight associate deputy chiefs below them, and almost half of the 35 staff directors below the associate deputy chiefs. In all, 177 people at the Forest Service are at that salary level. Says Kenneth Rashid, a Consumer Product Safety Commission official: "Only a committed Marxist could love a system where everybody makes the same amount of money. It simply stifles ambition and creativity and hard work...
House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neil Jr. (D-Mass.) will tell conferees on the House side that blocking the Senate challenge to rent control is a top priority. Kevin Peterson, a legislative aide to the speaker, said yesterday. "He has been advocating strong resistance," Peterson said...
Students at the Garthar B. Peterson Elementary School in Atlanta used to dread standardized achievement tests. But this spring, when testing time came, their principal staged a pep rally and promised them a trophy and a party if they did well. It worked. When the results came in, the Peterson school had something to cheer about: after years in the doldrums, more than half its students scored above national norms in reading...
...Peterson Elementary was not alone. Earlier this year, the Jacksonville school system announced that it now placed fourth in Florida test standings, up from a near bottom ranking just three years ago. California school officials proudly point out that their elementary pupils are doing notably better in math and reading than six years ago. Boston and Chicago have made similar claims about improved test results, and last week the State of New Jersey joined in too. And according to New York City school officials, more than half the public school students there now read at or above their present grade...