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...charge of all-male classes in biology and chemistry at the West Africa Secondary School in Accra. "It's certainly a refreshing change," she says. "The boys here are much more enthusiastic than the girls were at Foxcroft. They pay perfect attention, and you can hear a pin drop during lab sessions." Ghana's volunteer teachers seem not to mind their long classroom hours-up to 24 hours per week-but complain about the lack of teaching aids, notably for science courses. "There's no electricity for physics demonstrations," says Penn State's Donald Groff...
...more effective than a scoring Ohiri but until he broke loose in the third period, Ohiri was as good as ever less spectacular way. Seldom able to break through a double-teamed defense for a shot, he consistently dropped pin- point passes in front of teammates...
...field," Betty Coed style, is as outdated as the raccoon coat; boys nowadays want "dating security," and since girls want boys, the universal solution is "going with," "going along with," or, in a squarer phrase, "going steady." A boy often signals this understanding by giving a girl his fraternity pin, following up with roses delivered to her sorority house during a candlelight ceremony. Dating security leads at least to the doorstep necking or the kiss before class that sometimes is known as P.D.A.-public demonstration of affection. The authorities frown on P.D.A. "We don't want to discourage kissing...
...city government; in the Wagner-Lefkowitz debate they neither expected nor got a serious discussion of municipal problems. But if the purpose of the debate was to project personalities, it was a considerable success. Manhattan-born Bob Wagner came across as a bland, coolly confident politician of the collar-pin...
Soon after, he put Harvard ahead 4 to 1. Taking a long, pin-point pass from center-half Ward, Ohiri dribbled around a fullback to the left of the goal, streaked in, and put a fast ground shot past the diving goalie into the far corner...