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...Hentoff prints in its two-page entirety, the school would not reconsider and the boy received his diploma only after agreeing to take the three blows. Other horror stories--such as an assistant principal wearing brass knuckles and an athletic coach clubbing his players into form with an athletic shoe--are interspersed with accounts of teachers' justifications of corporal punishment and with discussions of court decisions affirming the legality of corporal punishment...
...fast-falling tumbling jumps with the barest feel of contorted frenzy. The climaxes seem to come from one root gesture, a balance on one foot with the other leg held stiffly to the side just off the floor. Paxton transforms this pose at another moment into a slippery soft-shoe, and later into an awkward stumble, buoying to stay upright. The image is of a swimmer with his head always just slightly above water...
...spends only $12.50 a year for electricity for each person in her eight-member household. (Daytime rates in the two communities are comparable.) Such knowledge about energy costs is commonplace in Rösrath; the average housewife knows kilowatt rates as accurately as she does the size of her shoe. Some of Rösrath's residents also benefit from the kind of energy-saving measures that Carter is trying to encourage-for example, a device that stores heat generated by electricity ,at night, when the rate is low, and then releases it during...
...drainage ditch and cow trail. They are familiar with the telltale habits of their quarry. Most aliens are hungry, dirty, and walk with a nervous gait. Their clothes may betray them. On the wall in Lomblot's office, a big picture frame encloses types of Mexican and American shoe heels so that an agent can tell the difference at a glance...
Businessmen were generally angry, however, about Carter's decision to abandon the proposed increases in the investment tax credit. Many of them believe that higher credits are the best way to ensure full economic recovery. Said William Shesky, president of the Bostonian Shoe Co.: "The real approach to attacking inflation is through the private sector, by increasing productivity." But interviews by TIME correspondents across the country indicated that businessmen probably would have continued to mistrust Carter in any event. One reason: many businessmen fear that he will turn out to be a big-spending liberal in spite of his conservative...