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...Venetians, and those who love Venice, for centuries. Lord Byron foresaw a day when the city's "marble walls are level with the waters." Built on a group of mud islands and reinforced only by ancient wooden piles and wattles, Venice has always been a sinking city. In recent years, however, in addition to losing ground at an ever faster rate, it has been attacked by the pestilence of modern cities-air pollution. As a result, the city and its treasures are now in greater danger than ever before...
...results have been awesome. One of his homers cleared the left centerfield fence in Kansas City, 480 ft. from home plate and nearly 80 ft. up. "They say it went 600 and change," says Jackson. He batted in ten runs in a game with Boston. During a recent game in Oakland, he belted three home runs against Seattle pitchers. After he cracked two home runs in a single game in Washington, Jackson received a telegram from a local fan: "Although I always root for the home team, I have nothing but the highest admiration for your performance the night...
...education has become the most hotly debated topic in American elementary education. In recent months, a carefully orchestrated campaign led by political conservatives has embroiled one school district after another across the nation in angry argument over sex courses. State legislatures have argued the subject; school-board and P.T.A. meetings have been disrupted by angry opponents of sex education, who have sometimes labeled its advocates Communist sympathizers and proponents of "psychological VD." The nationwide offensive against sex education was a major topic at this month's annual convention of the National Education Association, which passed a resolution strongly reaffirming...
According to a recent Gallup poll, 71% of adult Americans approve of sex education in one form or another. Under the concerted conservative attack, the programs are being questioned and even halted in many areas. Notably, boards of education in three California cities have been sued because of sex courses by citizen groups charging invasion of privacy. Legislators in Arizona, California, Iowa, New Jersey, New York and Oklahoma have recently debated the merits of sex-education programs. Last May, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller approved a conservative-backed law withholding state funds from sex education courses...
...with unusual sounds and effects. For Hell in the Pacific, he wrote mostly in a serialistic orchestral style, but at one point bounced golf balls on the strings of a piano to underline the irrational hatred between the film's antagonists, Lee Marvin and Toshiro Mifune. In the recent Che!, he suggested the primitiveness of the Bolivian mountains by conjuring up an original score based on the sullen, pentatonic folk music of the ancient Inca tribes, even using native instruments like the armadillo (strings stretched across an armadillo shell). The film was a disaster, but Schifrin's score...