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There was no doubt that his seventh-and eighth-graders idolized him. They called him Paul, and "they followed him around," one mother reported, "as if he were a Pied Piper." At lunchtime so many flocked to his table that he decided to use the hour to give extracurricular Spanish lessons. In class he had a knack for arousing the interest of the most unlikely pupils. One day he gave a farm boy who had always hated poetry a piece of paper and said, "Now, imagine you are seated at the plow. What do you see?" The result, says Richer...
Last week Astronomer Gerard Peter Kuiper (rhymes with piper) of the University of Chicago made another move toward demoting Pluto. Recent observations have proved that its period of rotation on its own axis is more than six days (TIME, Feb. 6). For a planet, says Scientist Kuiper, this is too slow...
...TIME Room, where cover blow-ups and gold-and-black clocks hung from the ceiling on brightly colored ribbons, pretty debutantes called their requests for songs to four pianists while their escorts paid a papier-mache piper $1 a tune. There, too, handsome matrons and visiting celebrities accepted the invitation on a sign, "See yourself on the cover of TIME," smiling at themselves in small mirrors bearing the TIME logotype and familiar red border...
...Alabama legislature, zooming past the Richmond pied piper, last week passed a much more rebellious resolution. "Until the issue between the State of Alabama and the general government," it said, "is decided by submission to the states, pursuant to Article V of the Constitution, of a suitable constitutional amendment that would declare, in plain and unequivocal language, that the states do surrender their power to maintain public schools and other public facilities on a basis of separation as to race, the legislature of Alabama declares the decision and orders of the Supreme Court of the U.S. relating to separation...
...after day in December, the missionaries flew over Auca country in a Piper Family Cruiser, shouting down greetings in Auca over a loudspeaker and dropping gifts of machetes, bright beads and clothing in a canvas bucket with a line so long that the light plane could wait, circling, while the Indians emptied the pail. One afternoon, catching on, the Aucas responded by sending up some presents of their own: feathers, birds and food. Thus encouraged, the Americans a fortnight ago landed hopefully on a length of the sandy beach of the River Curaray...