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...Commissioner of Education Terrel Bell says he had to resign his $37,800 job because he could not educate his sons on that salary [May 3]. We struggle to live on $10,000 a year, trying to make ends meet and give our children some kind of education. This country is rapidly becoming a place for the rich only. It isn't a generation gap that causes the misunderstandings-it's the wage gap that is so disgusting to many...
...Terrel H. Bell, 54, had a problem familiar to many Americans: even with a handsome salary ($37,800), he was not going to be able to put all his children through college. Bell's eldest son will enter the University of Utah in September (room, board and tuition: $2,700); two other sons will soon follow...
With that in mind, Bell candidly wrote his boss, Health, Education and Welfare Secretary David Matthews, that even with just one son in college, there was "no way I can support him from my present position." And so Terrel Bell submitted his resignation, effective Aug. 1, as U.S. Commissioner of Education. He will become Utah's commissioner of higher education and head of its board of regents-at a salary...
...Commissioner of Education Terrel H. Bell described the findings as "rather startling," and said they "call for some major rethinking of education on several levels...
...matches that could have swung the meet to Harvard were those of John Levin and Larry Terrell. Levin, facing probably the best tennis player in the Ivies, Hugh Curry, beat him decisively in the first set, 6-2 but lost the last two, 4-6, 4-6. Terrel, in a three-hour match, stated out badly, won the second match and lost third...