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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tell your teacher that our family history is none of her damn business!" was a remark I heard more than once when we started searching for family histories [March 28] as an English-class project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 18, 1977 | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

...integration by busing, attempts to deal with those questions and criticisms. Lupo, an experienced Boston-bred journalist with a keen eye for detail, does not present the reader with a completely seminal work. He repeats and amplifies some of the observations Harvard's Robert Coles and the lesser-known teacher and author Kim Marshall have made about Boston's problems with busing. On balance the value of his book is that it backs up a series of telling arguments with intelligent reportage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Poor as Political Pawns | 4/15/1977 | See Source »

That grotesque confession should be sufficient to discredit the man who made it, a Russian-born teacher and friend of Lee Harvey Oswald's named George de Mohrenschildt. But nothing ever seems sufficient to still Kennedy assassination stories; time and events merely complicate them. Last week-only an hour after a congressional investigator asked to meet with him in Manalapan, Fla. -De Mohrenschildt apparently committed suicide, by putting a 20-gauge shotgun in his mouth and pulling the trigger. Suddenly there was intense interest in what he might have told the investigator. Sure enough, within 48 hours, a world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Assassination: Now a Suicide Talks | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

Dual Role. Press, who plans to spend what spare time he finds in his new role reading about earthquake forecasting, also managed to transmit his love of science and teaching to his children. His daughter Paula is a teacher and is married to a graduate student of public health; his son William is a professor of astronomy at Harvard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The President's Scientist | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

...down-at-the-heels private eye named Russel Wren is suddenly victimized by a series of increasingly vigorous beatings. Someone, perhaps everyone, is out to get him, and Wren naturally wants to find out why. One good reason may be his mouth. A former college English teacher, the shamus speaks in Victorian grandiloquent, and the burden of his remarks is composed of snippets from the Great Books and library paste. Wren cannot even make a kinky pass at his secretary without providing footnotes: "Dante finds Beatrice in heaven, on one side of the Lord, with none other than the Virgin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Loopy Locutions | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

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