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Morning at a West Coast high school. The first-period bell rings, barely audible above the classroom din. "O.K., everybody, settle down," says the soft-spoken teacher of the course called Modern Problems. Her two dozen students, grouped around seven tables, pay scant attention. She switches on a video machine by her desk; a neatly categorized outline flashes on the board...
Fountains are one example. Though they have been livening up city squares in Europe for centuries, America's city builders for a long time gave scant thought to the frivolous pleasure that fountains offer. But in the past few years, urban planners all around the country have been turning more and more imaginatively to water with some refreshing and spectacular results...
...Administration, mindful of the criticism of scant returns from Vance's trips to the Middle East and Moscow, took care to bill the Peking venture merely as "exploratory"-a get-acquainted meeting between the young Carter Administration and China's newly confirmed post-Mao leadership. Said a U.S. official on the eve of Vance's departure: "I can't imagine going on a trip with less prior hint of what's going to come...
This is not exactly the predicament that L.A.'s managers envisioned a scant 16 months ago. Then they were hunkered down for Clay-day: the invasion of their territory by Clay Felker and his new New West magazine, supported by a $4 million start-up budget. As a California clone of Felker's sassy, brassy New York magazine, New West, it seemed, had only to come and be seen to conquer. "In fact," says L.A. 's Baker, "New West is the best thing that ever happened...
...strained close to the breaking point. Schmidt's own Social Democratic Party (S.P.D.) is in disarray, and relations with the U.S. are difficult. Twice last month the Chancellor narrowly avoided humiliating parliamentary defeats. Because of defections within the S.P.D., the government's tax package passed by a scant three votes. Last week, at a tumultuous session of the Bundestag, the coalition defeated a censure motion against Schmidt by a margin...