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...this is far from enough. One out of three New York pupils is, as the latest educanto puts it, "culturally different"-a stranger to middle-class values. One out of three junior high students is at least two years retarded in reading-constituting the city's No. 1 academic deficiency. All too often those same youngsters are shunted into outmoded vocational schools or diluted "general" academic courses that lead nowhere. Roughly half of all New York high school students drop out before graduation...
...When a stranger identifies you from a friend's description, it's just as well you didn't hear the description...
...Elizabeth was surprised, so were her subjects. After half an hour's conversation with Macmillan the Queen returned to Buckingham Palace, passing through a waiting crowd at the gates. A few minutes later a black Humber approached along the Mall. The man in the rear seat was a stranger; a private detective, it turned out. But the faintly smiling, aristocratically fair features of the man beside the driver were familiar enough. "It's Lord Home!" came the amazed shouts. "Astonishing!" gasped Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard...
...frightens him. So he seldom stops to think about it, zipping around golf courses or around the world, giving the winged chariot a run for its money. This has made him a transient in his own home. He jokes that the towels in his bathroom say HERS and WELCOME STRANGER. His wife spends most of her time working for Catholic charities. They have four children. The oldest, Anthony, is a student at Harvard Law. Gradually, over the years, whatever there was of the man behind the image of Bob Hope has disappeared. Hope has always insisted that the brittle, wisecracking...
...bleak and repellent egotism of the Auchincloss characters can only be based on the primitive assumptions about human nature that are made in a court of law, where it is weirdly believed that intricate psychological matters may be accounted for in answers to questions asked by a total stranger. It may be sound law, but it is fictional malpractice. However, Louis Auchincloss may be profitably read for a glimpse of law's expensive mystery. It is seldom that the layman gets a chance to improve his knowledge of legal matters for as little...