Word: swaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first stage went smoothly enough, with the North releasing 1,032 captives in return for some 7,000 Communists held in the South. The second swap was delayed for more than a week as the two sides quarreled over the accuracy of each other's lists. Saigon says it holds 27,000 Communists, but the Viet Cong says the true number is many times larger. Similarly, the Communists say they hold 4,785 Saigon troops, but Saigon says the real total is 36,603. By week's end some 1,500 more Communists had been released as part...
Whatever their motives, the four held a conference sometime that summer and decided on a trial swap, agreeing, with remarkable forethought, that if the trade were not agreeable to everyone, all would go back to their original partners. In the course of this parley, no detail was overlooked. Each couple had two children, so it was decided that the older child of each marriage would live with his father, the younger one with his mother. There was even an agreement to exchange family dogs...
Guilty. For a while after the swap, things were rosy; as the talkative Susanne related last week, "Mike and Marilyn were thrillingly in love. I thought it was so beautiful." They all thought it so beautiful, in fact, that they contemplated not only a double divorce but a double wedding. Then the glow faded. On December 5, they switched back to their original partners, but "Marilyn cried for Mike," Fritz says, and the attempted reconciliation lasted only nine days. On December 14, there was another, presumably last switch. But Marilyn, influenced by what Mike calls her "background," felt too guilty...
...week's end the two couples' biggest worry, apparently, was what people would think. "Don't make this out to be Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice," Susanne admonished reporters. "Don't say this was wife swapping," Mike echoes, "because we didn't swap wives, we swapped lives." Other members of the Yankees rallied around their teammates. Said Outfielder Ron Swoboda: "This is a now situation, and baseball players are part of the now world." Catcher Thurman Munson agreed. "It ain't going to bother me," he said. "The only thing that's going...
Thus Learning's regular monthly features include a "Swap Shop" of tested teaching ideas and a centerfold poster that teachers can use as a lesson plan. This month's poster helps children evaluate the relationship between laws and basic rights. Future issues will include interviews with well-known child-development theorists-Jean Piaget, for example, and Bruno Bettelheim-and articles by authors who rarely write about education, such as Science-Fiction Novelist Ray Bradbury...