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...seems, even high schools have fallen into the trap. An article in the Oct. 30 issue of The New York Times Magazineexamining a prototypical suburban high school in Brownwood, TX revealed some rather alarming information. Corporal punishment is regularly used on players who misbehave or demonstrate conduct unbecoming a team member. Some parents hold their sons back a grade so that "they will be bigger when they try out for the high school team." And on one occasion, after a season of repeated losses, a coach received so many threatening phone calls before an upcoming game that he was forced...
...hush was of a different, edgier kind when the Marine Corps captain and sergeant stepped up to the suburban Baltimore apartment with news of Lance Corporal Davin Green. His mother had utterly persuaded herself that Davin, 20, was a survivor. "How do you know it's really him," she protested after the men delivered their message, "if he's all blown to pieces?" Days later, her daughter-in-law was refusing to concede she was a widow. "I know he's not dead," said Deborah Green, 19, whom Davin married 48 hours before shipping out for Beirut...
...Houston Oilers have had two incidences of possession. So in Texas drugs have been added to the holy coordinates of football: a religious coach, sideline sex, boots, North Dallas Forty, jeans, Semi-Tough, barbecue sauce, insurance, computers, oil and (on third down) shotguns. Before the game last week at suburban and palatial Texas Stadium, former Cowboy Quarterback-turned-Broadcaster Don Meredith was missing the seedy and inner-city Cotton Bowl, where the Cowboys used to play, and generally lamenting the passing of time. "I made up a saying once," he said. " 'All we gotta do is go down...
...Suburban News...
...FIRST MONDAY in October brought some good news to the Village Trustees of Morton Grove, Ill., a suburban community of 24,000 just northwest of Chicago. By refusing to review a lower court ruling appealed by the National Rifle Association, the United States Supreme Court let stand the town's ordinance against the sale and possession of handguns. Unfortunately, this decision is a rather hollow victory for gun control advocates. The fact that the responsibility for enacting gun control laws has fallen to local governments in towns the size of Morton Grove is just a reminder of a failure...