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...woman teacher has no right to compensation for jury duty-even though men teachers do. New York City's board of education refused to pay Teacher Muriel Goldblatt the difference between her jury pay and what she would have earned had she not been absent from the classroom. Since men teachers get such compensation, Mrs. Goldblatt sued the board. Sorry, ruled Civil Court Judge George Starke. While men teachers must serve when called, New York exempts women from jury duty. Thus women teachers serve only by choice, and are not entitled to pay for teaching when they volunteer...
...absent resident of California, I was overwhelmed by the news of Ronald Reagan's victory. The contest pitted vigor and a constructive campaign against a stagnant administration and a campaign based on the destruction of character. My faith has been restored in the "ignorant" voting public-though eight years of education was necessary...
...other important sectors the state's Negroes are obviously behind those in the North, they are still better off than those in most other Southern states. This was true even before the Little Rock eruption in 1957. The intense racial animosities of the Deep South are notably absent in Arkansas, where Negroes had little difficulty voting even before the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In Little Rock, where schools were rigidly segregated ten years ago, some 1,400 Negroes now go to classes with whites. With a 25% Negro population statewide, Arkansas' school integration pace is ahead...
Conspicuously absent from the Loeb's Spring program is Timothy S. Mayer's Phyllis Anderson Award-winner Prince Erie. If Mayer's play is not done next Fall, it will be the first time the Loeb has not produced a Phyllis Anderson play...
...notes collected by the Los Angeles county coroner's office, Psychologists Edwin S. Shneidman and Norman L. Farberow were struck by the many instructions, admonitions and lists of things to do that seemed to epitomize "the illogicality of the entire suicidal deed-thinking simultaneously and contradictorily of being absent and giving orders as though one were going to be present to enforce them...