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...meet revolves around the question of whether the pupil can beat the teacher, whether the assistant coach can beat the coach who taught him everything he knows," Harvard coach Bill McCurdy said of the Villanova-Penn rivalry...
IGNORING the Milanese playboy, Micol lavishes her attentions on Giorgio. As they stroll together through the garden, they people the woods and fields with remembrances of things past; glimpses of the two as children show Giorgio even then a shy admirer of the "private pupil" Micol, while she plays the seductress in their game of communication through glances. A sudden downpour dispells the sunshine of their memories, and taking refuge in an old carriage, their mode of contact threatens to become physical. But Giorgio is too slow in making this transition from childhood innocence. Paralyzed by the enticing new light...
Whites' Flight. The Richmond case runs back through more than a decade of controversy. During the late 1950s, while some Virginia schools were closing in protest against Federal orders to integrate, the State Pupil Placement Board kept integration within narrow limits. In Richmond, where the school board chairman was Lewis F. Powell Jr., now a Supreme Court Justice, the first blacks entered white schools in 1960, but only two of them. The following year, the NAACP filed a suit on behalf of eleven black youngsters aged eleven to 14, which led to court-ordered busing across the city. Even...
...which it is estimated would reach between $10 billion and $12 billion a year, would go to municipalities to pare education costs. This would ease the burden on homeowners, who pay for schools out of their increasingly heavy property taxes. Because the money would be distributed on a per-pupil basis instead of by school district, the plan would enable Nixon to redeem his pledge to aid parochial schools...
During the heyday of "progressive" education in the 1930s, a celebrated cartoon showed a young pupil plaintively asking the teacher: "Do we have to do what we want again today...