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...week the Baltimore board fired Superintendent Roland Patterson after 12 days of raucous and acrimonious public hearings. The board charged Patterson, 47 and black, with "short changing" the city's schools (74% black) by lowering academic standards and failing to end school violence. In Chicago, Superintendent James F. Redmond announced that he would not accept reappointment to his $56,000-a-year job when his contract expires next month, citing "constant bickering" among the city's twelve board members and criticism of the low scores of Chicago pupils. Boston's school committee eased out William Leary...
...good day for the Irish. Providence College's hot cross-country trio of Irishmen--O'Shea, Tracy and Redmond--put together strong races yesterday at Franklin Park as the Friars burned the University of Massachusetts and Harvard...
...Keefe, who turned in an impressive time in the opening meet against Northeastern's premier runner Mike Buckley. Keefe will be facing the likes of Providence's fighting Irishman and last year's New England champ Mike O'Shea as well as another duo of Irish Friars Tracy and Redmond, both juniors...
While hunting outside the Utah town of Redmond, Homer Behunin, 49, an amateur geologist, took a shot at a large male deer. The wounded buck ran off. As Behunin followed in hot pursuit, he stumbled onto a far more important prize: the fossilized remains of a primeval palm tree that may be the oldest flowering plant ever found...
Kris Johnson, 23, an electronics technician in Redmond, Wash., is working only four days a week now, and his income has dropped 15%. He and his wife have given up moviegoing in favor of getting together with friends for beer and popcorn, and the Johnsons are growing a vegetable garden to cut food bills. Johnson gave his wife a choice of giving up either bowling or driving to reduce expenses; she chose to continue bowling, so last week he sold the family's 1966 Galaxie, keeping a 1962 Buick. "I think this is the time to liquidate whatever...