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...urban educators would disagree. Armed robberies, assaults and purse snatchings occur with depressing regularity in many-though obviously not all-of the nation's city schools. Declares Los Angeles' Principal Sid Thompson: "For teachers and students alike, the issue unfortunately is no longer learning but survival." His own high school is known as "Fort Crenshaw" because of its steel mesh fence, armed guards and classroom doors that lock from the inside. Not even such Draconian measures have left Crenshaw free of violence. Last month a gang climbed over the fence, tore off a student's jacket...
...like to leave you with my child," he breathes, lunging for her tunic. "Monday," she shudders, dying to surrender herself but trying also to cope with a pesky short-wave radio that crackles away on a nearby table, summoning her to report. Such sequences evoke memories of Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca, who could have had a fine time giving this movie a well-deserved savaging...
...Still speaking of centers and UCLA losses, when the Bruins last lost some 60 games ago in South Bend to the fightin' Irish, Tom Sinnott and Austin Carr were the guards while Sid Catlett and T. Collis Jones were in the corners, but who was N.D.'s starting center? Who was the coach of the Irish? What was the starting lineup that fateful night for Wooden when he returned to the town of his first teaching and coaching job (South Bend Central...
Jimmy's, in fact, is a different sort of world, and Co-Owner Sid Davidoff is the first to admit it. "Pavilion we're not," he says. Jimmy's menu is in keeping with the clientele the restaurant was designed to attract: steaks, chops and seafood for the New York politicians, writers and celebrities who jammed its ample premises (once occupied by Toots Shor's) on opening night last week. As the cop outside put it that evening: "We have the immediate world here." No small assets are the connections Davidoff and Partner Richard Aurelio made...
...SID SKOLNIK...