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Most U.S. school systems are so busy corseting the population bulge that much of the reform in U.S. pedagogy is passing them by. Among the happiest exceptions is Newton, Mass., a Boston suburb with a population of 95,600 (up 13,600 since 1950) and a tradition of academic excellence that goes back to 1848, when Horace Mann moved the nation's first normal school there. Newton is probably the most creative school system in the U.S. today-an "island of change," as educators call it, that is rivaled only by the much smaller Winnetka...
Give or take a characteristic, Newton resembles many another well-to-do suburb. It has a small factory district, an average family income of $14,946, a population roughly divided among Jews, Catholics and Protestants, with about 100 Negro families. Newton's schoolchildren are usually two years ahead of national norms in reading; around 60% go on to four-year colleges. With enrollment (18,000) up 60% since 1950, the town has spent $19 million to expand a school plant that now includes one junior college, two high schools, five junior highs and 25 grade schools. Annual spending...
Trotsky was enchanted by the Mexican landscape. He was fascinated by cacti and took long hikes to search for rare specimens. The hard-bitten revolutionary also kept rabbits and chickens at his home in Coyoacan, a suburb of Mexico City, and spent hours feeding them according to the latest scientific methods...
...Makarios and the Greek Cypriots is enosis, that is, eventual union with Greece. Somebody started shooting, and fighting spread rapidly along the frontier between the Greek and Turkish sectors of the capital city of Nicosia. Rooftop snipers traded shots, and teen-age terrorists slugged it out in the suburb of Traphonas, which has a mixed population...
Even a final judgment may leave a winner little more than a moral victory. Though Congressman Powell has an income estimated above $60,000 a year and a house in Puerto Rico's secluded Vega Alta suburb, he talks poor-mouth when it comes to paying Mrs. James. He has repeatedly refused to post bond, even when her lawyer, Ray mond Rubin, offered to settle for a bond less than the full amount. And though the law offers a variety of measures for enforcing the judgment, Powell has so far frustrated them all simply by refusing to appear...