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Coordinated by the American Booksellers Association, the advertisement was jointly paid for by 15 publishers and 126 booksellers (the names and addresses of 63 retailers appear in each of two geographically divided lists). This cooperative venture allows the advertisers to reach book buyers in a wide area, not merely the few major book-buying centers where publishers often concentrate their selling. Says Joseph A. Duffy, executive director of the American Booksellers Association: "It is well known among publishers and booksellers that a mention of a book in TIME leads to sales. In fact, TIME'S impact is regarded...
Everybody agreed that James Worley, head of the English department at big (1,160 students) Fox Lane High School near Mount Kisco, N.Y., was just about the finest teacher they knew. And academic standards are high in the suburban Westchester County area, home of many a well-heeled Manhattan commuter with an eye on Harvard for his son. But last week able, balding Teacher Worley, 38, was fired. Reason: he refused to file lesson plans with the front office two weeks ahead of class...
...Worley saw it differently: "I concede the right of administrators to compel me to guard the footbridge on the day of football games, to patrol the boys' washrooms, and to supervise night basketball games. However irksome I might consider those demands, they do not trespass on the one area of education that is mine alone-the classroom. As long as my competency is accepted, I am the expert in the classroom...
Swinging a Pickax. Last year, with the Leeds area short of several hundred teachers, Educator Taylor hit on the sound idea that people in their 30s and 40s might like to switch careers. He aimed at restless mothers of teen-aged children, at bright older men with dull jobs who "feel quite desperate because their lives are being wasted." Britain's Ministry of Education pooh-poohed the idea, but Taylor persisted with a plan to set up a two-year college in a grimy, abandoned Leeds school building. This fall the unenthusiastic ministry finally agreed, and Taylor...
Rabbi Wanted. The 21,000 Bene Israelites, most of them in the Bombay area, are the largest single group in India's small (25,400) Jewish community. There are 28 Bene Israel synagogues, whose congregations will hold their first assembly in Bombay this month. After living and intermarrying for centuries with the Hindus, Bene Israelites practice many Hindu customs. Most of them eat no beef, in observance of the Hindu prohibition against slaughtering cattle. They break the bangles of a widow when her husband dies, and remove from her neck the mangal sutra (auspicious thread) of black beads that...