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Declining performance. After more than a decade of vaunted "innovations" ? free-form "open classroom" programs, flexible mod ular scheduling, enough electronic gadgetry to make some schoolrooms look like Mis sion

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Schools Under Fire | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

...That since 1969, the CAB has enabled Callaway to establish fairly reg ular flight service from Atlanta to Crested Butte by waiving restrictions governing charter flights, including an "affinity" requirement that charter passengers belong to an organized group. Crested Butte's original request for such waivers has been re-approved annually and routinely by the CAB. The board is now investigating its own alleged favoritism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDALS: Curtains for Callaway | 3/29/1976 | See Source »

...record turn out was a resounding defeat for incumbent David Hall, 44. The Governor, who won only 27% of the votes, will not even get a chance to compete in the mid-September runoff. That opportunity now goes to first-term Congressman Clem McSpadden, 48, a pop ular singing cowboy and rodeo announcer, and Baptist University Professor David Boren, 33, a Rhodes scholar whose unexpected political ascent is being compared to a prairie fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Oklahoma Prairie Fire | 9/9/1974 | See Source »

...Minister Morarji Desai, a dogged free-enterpriser in a statist Cabinet and a stern ascetic who once gave up conjugal relations with his wife for 20 years. But Desai's austerity programs have not made him popular. Socialist Leader Jayaprakash Narayan is, next to Nehru, the most pop- ular man in India, but his simple syrup solutions for complex problems have hurt his reputation - and besides, Congress Party leaders can hardly be expected to favor the man who leads the opposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Who's Next? | 8/24/1962 | See Source »

Instead. Jefferson agreed with research which suggests that there exists a waking center within some nerve cells in the brain stem and basal ganglia called "retic-ular formations." Sleep comes when this waking center is deactivated, probably by enzymes. But how this happens is unknown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sleepy Talk | 7/19/1954 | See Source »

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