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...librarians seen so many children so eager to get at the encyclopedia. At Lindbergh School in Palisades Park, N.J., about 600 pupils a week read it. At Princeton High School in Princeton, N.J., 30 children a day use it. At Palisades Park High School, 15 students line up each weekday by 8 a.m. to get their chance to scan it. The object of all this excitement is the Academic American, an electronic encyclopedia...
Last month, police received reports that a man spent most of a weekday afternoon loitering on the University Research Library fifth floor asking women to take off their shoes so he could see their feet...
Safire is widely acclaimed as a stylist. Indeed, his weekly columns on language in the Sunday Times Magazine and more than 100 other newspapers evoke more mail, much of it combative, than his weekday political "Essay." Says Safire: "When people notice I have made an error, their eyes light up." Enamored of puns, literary allusions, grand metaphors and other wordplay, Safire at his giddiest can let his love of sound undermine his efforts to make sense. An example: "Thus one who lobbies expertly for the rights of female derelicts might be called a shopping-bag-lady knifethrower." He is usually...
GREENHELD--Greenheld school officials are studying a plan to ofter low-cost weekday lunches at the high school cafeteria to the unempolyed...
...candidates [for Butler's job] were tremendously overqualified," Michael G. Colantuano '83, Council chairman, said of the six contenders. The post, which calls for typing, filing and handling calls on weekday afternoons, pays $7 an hour. Butler has held the job since November...