Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pretty well had to be. Recalls a boyhood chum, Lee Guerry: "Mostly we went to a movie, got a hamburger and then rode around in our cars watching other people ride around." The outside world intruded when the schools were ordered integrated in 1970. Mrs. Powell, a teacher for 30 years, was one of the few whites to stay in the public school system, and her family stood behind her. Powell's father Joe, incurably ill with cancer, committed suicide two years ago. "Joe was so proud of Jody." Mrs. Powell told TIME'S Larry Woods...
...Moluccans released the first pupils to fall sick and then, as the epidemic spread, telephoned Dutch authorities over a special line: "All the children will be freed. You may arrange the necessary transportation." After examining the released youngsters, Dutch doctors feared that some may have contracted meningitis. One ailing teacher was also released; the other four remained captive, though they were reportedly ill as well...
...desert like some mustang of the legendary West - but it is no horse, only modern horse power gone loco. Driverless, with a diabolical will of its own, it invades a Utah town and mows down a bicycling couple, the sheriff and a passel of deputies and a pert young teacher. Among the other victims: plot, dialogue and characterization. Deputy Sheriff James Brolin leads the counterattack, but it is an unequal contest: the car steals all the scenes. The ancient nightmare of machines turning against their masters has in recent years become something of a staple of made-for-TV movies...
...from one campus to another, accumulating credits, and a paucity of genuine academic knowledge. His list of truncated enrollments growing, he dauntlessly pursues the elusive college degree at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. There, in a gut history course called George Washington One, Gene meets Louise Fern, teacher and future room/bed mate...
...propensity to date other men unnerves Gene. His sexual and romantic fidelity evidently is superflous to her, for she engages in dalliances with all comers. The coup d'grace occurs when Gene arrives home to find Lou sharing a Pabst Blue Ribbon with dapper Steven Alexander, math teacher at Boyton University. His outraged reaction and her unwillingness to be relegated to one man precipitate the couple's breakup, an event that sends the free-lance student reeling through Maine, Iowa, and California...