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...teachers in similar terms. "We have a new type of more aggressive, more alert teacher all over this nation who wants to help determine the policies that affect him," declared N.E.A. President Braulio Alonso. "This is the beginning of a real revolution in the teaching profession." Teachers, echoed Albert Shanker, president of New York's United Federation of Teachers, a local of the A.F.T., "have to have power-this is a revolutionary change...
Mass Resignations. A similar impasse in New York City may well trigger some 40,000 teacher resignations, mostly by members of the militant United Federation of Teachers, thereby delaying the scheduled opening of school this week for more than a million children. U.F.T. President Albert Shanker, a former junior-high math teacher, argued that there is nothing to prevent a teacher from quitting his job, although under a state law the union can be fined up to $10,000 a day for striking. Union leaders rejected a two-year, $125 million package of benefits proposed by Mayor John Lindsay...
...Beatles are artists of the eclectic-improver variety (most famous example: Shakespeare), and like Shakespeare they are constantly picking up new styles and moods. In their musical celebrity world they are exposed to new contacts: their new-found acquaintances range from Ravi Shanker, who is teaching Harrison the entirely non-Western discipline of the sitar, to the Amadeus String Quartet (unsurpassed even by the Budapest), which recorded the background for "Eleanor Rigby" and which has leant the Beatles some of the Western tradition. Lennon and McCartney read voraciously, and they might borrow inspiration as easily from Eugene O'Neill...
...Albert Shanker, who heads the 49,000- member teachers' union, said yesterday that this trio was "not equipped" to do the job and that their selection "greatly increases the possibility that schools will not reopen on Sept...
...Shanker thinks that Theodore W. Kheel, the New York lawyer who helped settle other teachers' contract disputes, is the man for the job. He said, however, that his union would meet with the panel and would not directly appeal to Lindsay to change its make...