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...seemed eager to sign their contracts and get back to their blackboards, despite pay increases that in some cases seemed positively paltry when measured against current inflation rates. Boston teachers last week accepted a raise of just 5.5% (to $9,415), and teachers at one school in the Detroit suburb of Southgate settled for a mere...
Withering Barrage. On the ground, Turk tanks rolled out of the Turkish section of the city they had occupied since the July 20 invasion and thrust toward the suburb of Mia Milea, astride the road to Famagusta 35 miles to the east. A withering barrage of mortar and artillery fire preceded the tanks, and the native Greek forces, outgunned and outmanned, were unable to slow their advance. By early afternoon, the Turks were almost halfway to Famagusta, the island's principal port, its third largest (pop. 43,600) city and the center of its usually booming tourist industry...
...seems to be the sort of true believer who cannot forgive the world, and perhaps himself, for failing to live up to his youthful ideals. As he recounted last year In The Green Stick, his first autobiographical installment, he was raised as a devout socialist in a middle-class suburb of London. Later, his Utopian faith was shattered by his experiences as a correspondent in the Raj's India and Stalin's Moscow. Now, as the war ends in The Infernal Grove, he turns away in final disenchantment from the "world's wreck," disgusted equally with...
...concerns as priestly celibacy (against it), divorce reform (for it) and abortion (for it). Increasingly concerned that mankind's social and scientific skills were developing in a moral and ethical vacuum, he founded in 1969 the Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences in the New York suburb of Tarrytown. Through conferences, newsletters and testimony before legislative bodies, the 84-member institution seeks to influence policy in areas like genetic engineering, behavior and population control...
...that indicated that children in the third, fourth and fifth grades overwhelmingly idealized the President, viewing him as "benevolent, omniscient, omnipotent, protective, in fallible, diligent and likable." The professor's own much more limited current study of 367 children in the same grades in an upper-class Boston suburb (whose parents voted almost 2 to 1 for Nixon in 1972) shows a complete reversal. The President is now seen as what Arterton calls "truly malevolent, undependable, untrustworthy, yet powerful and danger ous." Where only 7% of the fourth-graders said of President Kennedy in 1962 that...