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...Harvard's Christian Ohiri, a junior honors candidate in modern European history, won a name for his TV speeches to schoolchildren in New England. He is also the Ivy League's star soccer player this year, holds Harvard's career record with 31 goals...
...perfect"), McLevy yearned for bigger things. In all he ran for public office 54 times in 58 years, including 15 times for Governor, twice for the U.S. Senate. He was always defeated for higher office, and finally even Bridgeport turned him down. The city's 25,000 schoolchildren desperately needed new buildings: its housing shortage could no longer be denied. Reluctantly, McLevy raised taxes in 1957. Ironically, the voters then turned against him, and he was unseated by 161 votes...
...Veterans Day last week, the sun had risen to brighten woodsy Westport, in Connecticut's suburban Fairfield County. It was a holiday for schoolchildren and some of their parents. At 9 o'clock in the morning, Westport looked just like the sort of place people think of when they want to epitomize a sophisticated, upper-middle-income suburban community. Manhattan is only 52 miles away, but Westport. with its carefully tended property and its comfortable homes, seems impervious to the cacophony of city life...
Britain's schoolchildren grapple for years with three different and conflicting methods of measuring weight (avoirdupois, troy and apothecaries' table), three ways of measuring length (linear, chain and nautical), and a bewildering variety of dry and liquid measurements, ranging from drachms, grains and scruples to tuns, hogsheads and chaldrons. Port is measured in pipes (105 gals.), people in stones (14 Ibs.), pickled peppers in pecks (554.84 cu. in.). For good measure, Britain's hundredweight is 112 Ibs., not 100; the pennyweight has been unrelated to the weight of any penny for a century and a half...
While the reforms were most loudly welcomed by rod-spared schoolchildren, they also stirred joy in English pubs, where a "single" Scotch or gin is usually one-sixth of a gill-barely enough, Britons grumble, to wet the glass. Henceforth, pubs will be allowed to dispense one-sixth, one-fifth or one-fourth of a gill.* But will be forced to display a sign saying clearly which measure they use. The greatest spur to thoroughgoing reform will undoubtedly be British membership in the European Common Market. In time, Englishmen may even order their mild-and-bitter by the liter...