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...would be lost without their machines. John Kounjain, mathematics director for the Watertown, Mass., public schools, calls the use of calculators "kind of ridiculous. You can't give the students a $19 calculator and then forget about teaching them the four basic functions." William Geo, a Denver math supervisor, says he gets an adverse reaction from some older teachers "who think that kids should be 100% independent." Others are concerned that students who can afford electronic brains will have an unfair advantage over those who cannot, although most school systems have moved quickly to prohibit their use on tests...
...challenges to that official conclusion have been building for years. In 1970 two film makers produced a feature documentary, The Second Gun, that questioned whether Sirhan fired the fatal bullet. Last May seeming conflicts in the evidence were examined at a hearing in Los Angeles conducted by County Supervisor Baxter Ward. In the past fortnight, skepticism reached a new height. Harper's, New Times, the Washington Post and the New York Times all published lengthy-and contradictory -reconsiderations of the case. Last week former New York Congressman Allard K. Lowenstein concluded his review of the assassination by calling...
...Night Supervisor in Lamont Library...
...bounty of as much as $13 per dingo scalp. They have even built-and maintain-a 5,402-mile-long wire-mesh fence that zigzags across most of the island continent, protecting the nation's 148 million sheep from the predatory dingo. Even so, says Brian Neill, supervisor of the New South Wales Wild Dog Destruction Board, "you can't relax. If a dingo gets through the fence it can kill 50 sheep in a night...
...Clarence Mearson, 44, a supervisor with an electronics firm, wants to move his wife and four children out of the two-bedroom, $14,900 mobile home that they have owned near Dulles Airport in Virginia for just over a year. Mearson has his eye on a handsome, $64,000 town house, and he has even saved enough for a down payment. But now he finds that inflation has driven the monthly carrying costs way beyond the limits of his budget. "I can't afford to pay those interest rates, and you can't sell anything any more...