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...picking up a cookbook and buying a set of copper pots. Present and would-be home chefs support hundreds of cooking schools in the U.S. They are mostly very good?notably James Beard's and Lydie Marshall's classes in Manhattan, or Mary Nell Reek's in Houston, or Rita Leinwand's in Los Angeles. A five-lesson program can cost as much as $350. Boston alone supports 29 cooking schools, teaching everything from dicing to making Dampfnudeln. Whether for culinary kudos or to master grande cuisine, Americans sometimes spend $3,060 (not counting jet fare or hotel bills...
Children are also heeding the Pied Piper's call to wok and roll in the kitchen. From the capital's Georgetown Day School to 30 department-store seminars?organized in 15 states by Philadelphia's Lea Bramnick and Rita Simon?the generation gap is being bridged with sauce and stockpot. Says Simon: "Children who have learned how to shop in a supermarket become demons of perfection, picking fruit that is ripe, examining vegetables for soft spots, watching the best buys...
...famous "moment of death" of a Spanish Republican soldier; the dead Chinese child being carried to a mass grave like a sack of laundry; Mussolini flapping his arms like a prize rooster; MacArthur sloshing ashore in the Philippines; the pinups of the '40s-Betty Grable, Dorothy Lamour, Rita Hayworth and that trivia-test stumper, Chili Williams, "the Polka-Dot Girl." A perfect gift for the old Sarge...
...discomfiture of many traditional civil rights advocates, Rita Greenwald Clancy was inspecting cadavers alongside 102 other freshman medical students at the University of California, Davis, last week. Admitted to the medical school through a federal court order, Clancy, 22, had managed to exploit one of the main arguments used to justify affirmative-action programs for minority job and school applicants...
...that it may collide with them." In 1976 six people died, and two have been killed so far this year. Minor mishaps usually result merely in awkward landings-in the midst of neighbors' cocktail parties, or atop trees. A balloonist once alighted on the grounds of the Santa Rita county prison in California and was hastily evacuated by officials...