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...public schools. Grady's defense of the vagueness: "We'd rather do a little education than none at all." This fall Greater Miami began offering comprehensive AIDS information as part of its sex-education program. AIDS is mentioned briefly to seventh-graders as one of many sexually transmitted diseases. Tenth-graders get a more thoroughgoing five hours focused on it. Parents are mostly pleased...
...pleasing to think that the Mets never quit, even in the sixth game, when, like the Red Sox in the play-offs, they were down to a last strike. But the accompanying image is of Team Leader Keith Hernandez making the second out in that 5-3 tenth inning and going directly to the clubhouse for a resigned beer. Manager Davey Johnson was left in the dugout banging out a cold requiem with the back of his head against the stone wall...
Jonathan Kozol '58, the winner of the National Book Award in 1968 for "Death at an Early Age" and the author of the widely-acclaimed "Illiterate America," told an audience of 100 that presently the government is spending only one-tenth the amount needed to solve the literacy problem...
Eventually, a bountiful, if not precisely beautiful, 6-5 game came along, leaving one for the title promising everything to everyone. Two runs ahead with an out to victory in the tenth inning, Boston mined 68 years of unthinkable disaster in the shape of infinite singles and First Baseman Bill Buckner's all-time error. For their part, having fallen behind 2-0 and 3-2 in games, the Mets lost some of their hauteur and most of their breath. "I don't care anymore," Third Baseman Ray Knight said, "if we're compared with the 1927 New York Yankees...
...respective symbols of play-off miracles, kept it up through six games, until Hurst began sending Dykstra back to earth swinging and stamping his feet. Several centuries ago, the Sox were down to Henderson's last swing in California, and in the sixth game the Mets' turnaround wasted his tenth-inning homer that might have won. "I'm not going to stop and think about it," he had said. "I'm going to keep riding the train." Somebody was bound for glory...