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...first, they not only sent their children to the public grade schools, a longtime Amish practice, but some parents permitted their teen-agers to attend two years of high school as well. Still, they feared that high school would tempt their children to "go English," as the Amish refer to slipping into worldly ways. The "English" world is non-Amish society; among themselves most Amish speak the German dialect known as Pennsylvania Dutch, and in religious services they use High German. New Glarus Farmer Wallace Miller, father of twelve and one of the respondents in the Supreme Court case, explained...
...Vietnamese air force is complete late in 1974, Saigon will have the world's seventh largest air force, with 1,300 planes. But even then it will not be self-sufficient. Partly because Washington does not want Saigon to have an air force advanced enough to tempt it into unwise adventures, VNAF will not be given the long-range planes that would enable it to keep pressure up on the Ho Chi Minh Trail or hold Hanoi's supersonic MIGs...
...reads, in part, the text of a current U.S. Army recruitment advertisement, which also includes color photographs of nine contented young men clad in sports attire ranging from a fencing suit to boxing trunks. Altogether, it is an alluring ad, the sort of thing that might well tempt a young jock to join up. But if the Army really wants to jam its recruiting offices, it might do better to focus its advertising on an actual case history: specifically, that of Tennis Player First Class (and Specialist Fourth Class) Stanley Roger Smith...
Some of his monuments, if built, would be lethal. One consists of twelve-story-high bowling balls rolling inexorably down the alley of Park Avenue. "The balls," notes Oldenburg, "are an at tempt to make tangible my feeling that Park Avenue is a dangerous street where you can get run over and killed very easily. The balls intensify and monumentalize this danger." Another, for Grant Park in Chicago, is a pro digious windshield wiper, slapping back and forth between two long rectangular pools. Says the artist: "These serve as swimming pools for the city's children...
...nobody has yet figured out the cause. Economic decline, for example, does not bring a drop in the number of miles driven. A reasonable explanation might be that recessions breed a general mood of caution that is reflected in driving habits, while upturns induce expansive feelings that may tempt some drivers to recklessness. But that is only speculation, and has not been substantiated by any studies...