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...parent and teacher at the same time. To handle the parental role, they stress sports, discipline, manners, religion and democracy. To teach well, they accent intimate learning in classes that average nine students compared with the public school average of 28. Avoiding distractions, they generally offer spartan living on spacious, tradition-encrusted campuses, most of them in the Northeast. Despite these uniform methods, the schools that operate 24 hours a day come in all shapes and sizes...
...Francisco even robbed its East Coast rivals of their most dangerous and traditional weapon--the home run ball. Used to swatting circuit blows in bunches, the baffled Bombers smashed only three homers in 63 innings of play at spacious Yankee Stadium and windswept Candlestick Park...
...Deep South, a pleasant morning coolness lingered on the University of Mississippi campus at Oxford. A bell signaled the end of 9 o'clock classes, and students poured from the stately, white-columned buildings. They merged into a sea of laughing, chattering youngsters, milling about on spacious green lawns. For a moment, the view at Ole Miss looked like any between-classes scene at any big, well-landscaped, coeducational college in the U.S. on any fine autumn...
Changing into a dark blue suit, Ben Bella that night delivered a "victory" speech from a balcony overlooking Algiers' spacious Forum. But so disgusted are Algerians with their squabbling leaders that scarcely 500 turned out to hear Ben Bella proclaim: "The crisis is over. The Politburo's authority is restored!" Unconvincingly, he added: "Algeria's real independence dates from today...
...John D. Jr. taught his boys that the Rockefeller money belonged to God and that the Rockefellers themselves were merely its stewards. "Father never allowed us to feel that we would ever have unlimited sums of money," David recalls. At seven, David spent eight hours raking leaves on the spacious grounds of the family's Pocantico Hills, N.Y., estate to earn $2. Other times he pulled weeds out of the terrace of the Seal Harbor, Me., summer home at a penny a weed. He also received 25¢ a week allowance, which he was obliged to keep track...