Word: teacher
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Hannifin headed for the phone to alert TIME's editors to the worst space disaster in U.S. history, the subject of this week's cover stories. Boston Bureau Chief Robert Ajemian promptly left for Concord, N.H., the home of Teacher Christa McAuliffe. Houston Bureau Chief David Jackson monitored developments at the Johnson Space Center. Washington Correspondent Jay Branegan pored over the tragedy with NASA experts in the nation's capital. In New York City, Senior Writer Ed Magnuson, who wrote the main story, and a 31- member editorial team awaited their telexed reports...
...thought first of the teacher and her children -- her own and her students. One wanted to snatch them away from the sight and rescind the thing they had seen. But the moment was irrevocable. Over and over, the bright extinction played on the television screen, almost ghoulishly repeated until it had sunk into the collective memory. And there it will abide, abetted by the weird metaphysics of videotape, which permits the endless repetition of a brute finality...
...full view of the world. It is true that television pitched itself fervently into what has become its sacramental role in national tragedies -- first wounding with its vivid repetitions of the event, then consoling, grieving, reconciling, administering the anchor's unctions. It is true that Christa McAuliffe, a teacher representing all the right things in America, rode as a nonprofessional, an innocent, into space, and her death therefore seemed doubly poignant and unfair...
...Expos Program has had difficulty meeting the Coop's deadlines for placing orders, because it often waits almost until the beginning of the semester to finalize teacher and student class assignments...
Keep in mind that this is coming from a man who spent nine years of his life as a teacher working with special needs kids and who, before this year, coached at Harvard for nothing...