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Perched on the rugged shore of Cook Inlet, the remote Alaskan community of Tyonek might well pass for an upper-middle-class Midwestern suburb. Its 60 houses (average price: $25,000), all equipped with modern appliances and television, stand along winding, tree-lined streets. It has a glistening commu nity hall, its own airstrip and guest house. Construction is under way on a modern $737,000 schoolhouse; in the works are a power plant, fire station and store. Yet Tyonek's conspicuous prosperity is a remarkably recent phenomenon: until the last year or so, the Athabasca Indians who largely...
...will be James Francis Redmond, 51, who now heads a peaceful school district of 9,000 students in Syosset on Long Island's North Shore. Syosset's affluent residents have been willing to help pay $1,220 per student in taxes, give Redmond a salary of $32,500, and devote much time to community committees that he has set up to consult on school problems. "I don't believe that school decisions should be left to the professionals," he says...
...Harvard Water Polo Club, wet off a 2-4 season, has elected Richard Smith '67 of Kirkland House and Springfield, Ohio, president for next year; Jan Rus '69, of Matthews Hall and La Hambra, Cal. vice-president; James Babcock '67 of Kirkland House and Minneapolis, Minn. treasurer; and Bruce Shore, lecturer on Astronomy secretary. This year the waterballers topped Brooklyn Polytech, 12-7, and M.I.T., 9-5, but drowned under Queens, Army, Fordham, and St. Francis...
...Girl-Getters is a dispassionate study of youthful drifters at a British seaside resort, glimpsed, in effect, through bloodshot eyes. When a British moviemaker wants to spell out the middle-class vapidities rejected by youth, he naturally heads straight for the shore where "the grockles" turn out in force. Grockles are the holidaying suckers of all ages, gathering junk in shabby souvenir shops, having their pictures taken, and eating anything, says one young cynic, "so long as it's with chips...
...world, dashed off a suicide note in classical Greek and then, as a mauve moon rose, swam wistfully out to sea. Not far out, however, his reveries of picturesque quietus were interrupted by a slight sting on his shoulder. A jellyfish! Shuddering in revulsion, he floundered to shore, jumped into his clothes and hurried home...