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Boston Brahmins. Practicing brotherhood is not the exclusive province of slum churches. One rich parish with a high sense of social responsibility is the nondenominational Dover Church in a suburb of Boston. Founded in 1762 as a Congregational meeting house, the Dover Church has a quota of New England Brahmins on its membership rolls, and until recently was a classic example of a genteel Christian parish...
...Pittsburgh plan: - TEAM TEACHING. As in other schools, a group of half a dozen or more teachers work together with a large group of children. "But team teaching is more a spirit than a thing," says Marland. He finds that since teachers can be more creative, teaching in slum areas becomes more interesting and exciting, which boosts student motivation and community involvement. By the end of this academic year, team teaching will be fully operative in 46 of Pittsburgh's 84 elementary schools, involving 30,000 pupils-the largest team-teaching project in the nation...
...preparation for his job as director of the New York City Opera. For the past eight years, operating on a budget that would pass for carfare at the Metropolitan Opera, he has been nurturing his company in a glorified Manhattan shoe box called City Center. Last week, like slum kids transported to the country, Rudel and his 200-member troupe moved into the spacious luxury of the New York State Theater at Lin coln Center...
...CHILE Volunteers will work with two agencies, the Foundation de Viviendas y Asistencia Social and the Agrarian Reform Corporation in either the poblaciones (one step above a slum) or rural aldeas (newly formed rural colonies...
...Gaullist camp before the upcoming parliamentary elections take place. The plan promised a 10% tax credit on capital spending for business, an easing of credit and price controls, a $20-per-year hike in old-age pensions, a 2.12% boost in France's minimum wage and subsidies for slum clearance and agricultural development...