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Rosenthal began his test in the spring of 1964. With the permission of the principal of San Francisco's Spruce School, where students are divided into three "tracks"--fast, medium and slow--he gave an IQ test to all students in the school's kindergarten and first grades...
Republican Fanning, who rose from copy boy to managing editor of the San Francisco Chronicle before moving to a series of top editorial posts with Field Enterprises in 1955, plans to spruce up the News's front page and to expand its coverage of the "Lower 48" when he takes over in September. Since its founding in 1946, the paper has been politically independent-and adventurous enough to have become embroiled in seven libel suits. By keeping it that way, Fanning hopes to catch up some day with Anchorage's afternoon Times, whose circulation of 22,000 makes...
...clash of opinion reverberates among the luthiers, or violinmakers, as well. Some figure that Stradivari got his wood from as far away as Germany, but most agree that the supple spruce in the tops of his fiddles came from the southern slopes of the Alps, and the curly maple in the bottom and sides from the eastern shores of the Adriatic. To find identical cuts of wood, U.S. Luthier Fernando Sacconi scavenged demolition sites in Italy last summer and salvaged planking from 400-year-old houses. To duplicate the seasoned willow that Stradivari used for braces, one U.S. luthier uses...
What makes a good country restaurant worth the trip? Basically, skillfully prepared food, an excellent selection of wines and attentive service-plus one magic ingredient: setting. Whether the restaurant is placed among dark spruce and silver birch beside a mountain stream in Vermont (Manchester's Toll Gate Lodge) or beneath giant pecans and live oaks in Texas (Salado's Stagecoach Inn), it offers a view and a personality that its city cousins can never match...
...steadily across Alaska last week in the worst series of forest fires that the state has seen in nearly a decade. Culminating a summer in which more than 200 fires have occurred, the biggest fire of all raged around the Fortymile River's West Fork, consuming the black spruce, cottonwood and paper birch and turning the green hills to barren black. At week's end, six other major fires spreading across a 500-mile arc still ravaged the nation's largest state...