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...part of the crew of this onetime school bus that the Indiana department of public instruction has dressed up as a roving Read-A-Rama, or bookmobile. The rig has rolled into leafy Claypool (pop. 464), the smallest of 102 cities and towns on its route, to stir up interest in reading by giving some books away...
...there are at least 1,500 in operation in the 50 states. The Indiana department of public instruction still keeps two bookmobiles on the road each summer. This summer they distributed some 40,000 books, embracing 800 titles, at a cost of $40,000. The intent is mainly to stir a love of reading in children. According to Rosemary Hurst, coordinator of the Indiana Read-A-Rama program, it works fine. Children heckle teachers to tell "when the readmobile is coming." After a visit, local librarians report an upsurge of business...
While visiting South Africa, Walls caused a stir with some frank talk to the press. He told a BBC interviewer tie had sent British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher a message in March requesting that Mugabe's election be invalidated because of widespread intimidation by ZANU supporters. Walls also gave an ambivalent answer to a question about reports that he had considered a military coup in the event of an inconclusive election...
...cities." New York City University's ubiquitous and biting Arthur Schlesinger Jr. feels that Carter is something the American people produced in their exhaustion and confusion after Viet Nam and Watergate. We are in a period of "national doldrums," contends Schlesinger, and when the U.S. begins to stir again?and it will?the Carter era will be swept away with the lethargy. "Carter would have been O.K. for the Republicans who don't want to do anything," says Schlesinger, who worked in John F. Kennedy's White House...
Billy and the polls stir new challenges...