Word: regulars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...caused GM designers to take another look. The diesel gets anywhere from 15% to 25% more miles per gal. than a gasoline-powered engine. Besides that, diesel fuel, which is essentially highly refined fuel oil, can cost as much as 10? per gal. less at the pump than regular gasoline depending on the area of the country. And the diesel engine, which has no spark plugs or distributor points, requires less frequent maintenance and repair...
...Prix racing, says Malibu Vice President Dan Morris, is "total escape. It lets you get away from it all. When that green light goes on, you're not thinking about anything else." The formula appeals equally to love-troubled teen-agers and businessmen with the blahs. One Malibu regular is an 86-year-old retiree; another is a prominent psychiatrist who drives up in his own Shelby G.T. The holder of the Northridge speed record is Joe Granatelli, 23, nephew of the great Andy and son of ex-Driver Vince Granatelli. Says he: "My father asked...
...commercial channels, all over the U.S. The hour-long program is an effort to publicize a new national law, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act. It requires that handicapped children be given a free public education, as often as possible by "mainstreaming" them with normal children in regular classrooms. The legislation begins to go into effect this October, though schools will have until next September to develop the bulk of their programs. An estimated 8 million handicapped children will be affected, a million of whom have never been educated...
Most of them are still being taught in separate classrooms. In Boston, though, Charlie Flynn and Mary O'Brien, special education consultants, have put 20 seriously handicapped students from kindergarten through third grade into regular city classrooms-at no substantial increase in expense, they argue, over that of educating normal children. All but a few attend the handsome William M. Trotter School in Roxbury, a school with a large staff that is even equipped with an elevator to transport children in wheelchairs...
Although students contacted this week say they are enjoying color televisions, air conditioning and maid service, they are generally unhappy with the school's tenative promises to move them back to the regular campus some time in October after a count of on-campus vacancies...