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...among students," says Dale Hesser, a Mattydale, N.Y., earth-science teacher. "A light comes into their eyes, and it's much easier to motivate them. If I couldn't teach this way, I would get out of teaching." At Los Angeles' Fremont High School, Sophomore Billy Tucker, who has trouble with arithmetic and reading, figures he will be fortunate to pass his discovery-based chemistry course-yet he is enjoying it." In the other subjects you just sit there and are supposed to learn," he says. "Here you can get up and do something on your...
...week's end the hospital squad included some of the game's best box-office draws. New York Giant Runner Tucker Frederickson was out with torn ligaments in his right knee. Having just recovered from a similar injury to his left knee, he was so gloomy that he was threatening to quit football. A wrecked knee cartilage has also sidelined New York Jets Emerson Boozer and Matt Snell; a dislocated shoulder stopped Baltimore Colt End Raymond Berry; broken bones have benched Giant Tackle Jim Moran and Clem Daniels, top rusher of the A.F.L.-leading Oakland Raiders. Kansas City...
HAROLD G. TUCKER Bayonne...
Racing across the flight deck, asbestos-coated fire crews sprayed everything in sight with foam and wrestled burning planes and 1,000-lb. bombs overboard. The destroyers Rupert us and Tucker steamed alongside with hoses trained upward. When the flames subsided, helicopters carried injured men off to nearby ships; one was the Oriskany, restored to Viet Nam service only two weeks earlier...
...among the white portion of our society. But it is just as true that the Negroes themselves are by and large woefully ignorant of their own past and of the many important figures who have dotted it ever since the birth in James-town during 1624 of William Tucker, the first Negro child born in the United States. Part of the blame for this general ignorance can be squarely laid to the deficiencies in our public school textbooks, which are only now starting to receive the careful attention they should have elicited long...