Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DOWN STAIRCASE. Sandy Dennis is expert, as always. But it is the kids themselves (recruited from the New York City streets) who give the ring of truth to this glossy rendering of Bel Kaufman's novel about a teacher's problems in a slum-area high school. THE THIEF OF PARIS. Jean-Paul Belmondo plays a burglar in turn-of-the-century France, manages only to steal the picture, which, because of its disjointedness, just misses being worth the effort...
...most of the routine affronts that face a Negro growing up in the U.S. His father, Clarence L. Smith, is now a $10,900-a-year civilian analyst of military penal procedures at the Pentagon. His mother, Artenia Gibson Smith, of American Indian and Negro descent, has been a teacher and counselor in Washington's public schools for the past 33 years. The Smiths took pains to insulate their only child from the abrasions of ghetto life...
...first," recalls one teacher, "he was a wild boy. He threw his desk around sometimes. But then he settled down. He's really sweet, with a natural, outgoing personality." So outgoing that by the ninth grade he was elected president of his class, of the student council, and was earning straight...
Peggy also confided in one of her high school teachers, who recalls: "It was a carefully thought-out decision." Mrs. Rusk discussed the courtship with the teacher and, according to the confidante, "never asked me to try to discourage Peggy and never showed any sign of disapproval." While Rusk was understandably troubled about the problems of a mixed marriage, he seemed even more concerned about Peggy's youth. The United Church of Christ minister who performed the ceremony, University Chaplain B. Davie Napier, detected no family hostility to the match. He discussed the problems of intermarriage with Peggy...
...deferment screws were also tightened upon the national service organizations like the Peace Corps, VISTA, and the Teacher Corps. The National Security Council will probably classify them as essential to the national interest since McNamara and General Hershey both favor the idea and the other Council members are Administration officials not anxious to kill Great Society programs. But even if national service volunteers (mostly college graduates) receive occupational deferments for the duration of their national service, under the new law they can expect to incur maximum liability to the draft when they complete their term--even if they are over...