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Physical conditions have outpaced all descriptions of their squalor. Black-boards have collapsed; windows have been nailed-shut; classes have been packed into foul-smelling cellars and unpartitioned auditoriums. Teaching has taken place in areas where it has been a continuing struggle merely to breathe fresh air and to hear a child when he talks...
...oppressively low-ceilinged cellar that reeks of dog droppings and rancid garbage. A single naked light bulb illuminates the grimy heating pipes, the cockroach-scampered walls, and piles of loose, whitewashed firebricks from the building's boiler. It hardly seems the place for a tryst, yet into that foul tomb last week walked a pair of hippie "love children" intent on the pursuit of passion. Instead they rendezvoused with death...
...Brock races for the foul line, straight-arms a caddie, and plows over for the touchdown. Joe Namath fakes to a Ferrari and hook-slides into the 14th green. And here comes Billie Jean King, riding home another long shot...
...Your Essay on "Race & Ability" [Sept. 29] should be made "must reading" in classes the world over at the grade levels where it can sink in and take hold before the ugly head of prejudice rears and spews its foul lessons on the unsuspecting young...
...sacrifice fly to score Scott and moved Smith to third. Petrocelli took second on a delayed double steal as Shannon made a diving stop of catcher McCarver's throw to save a run. Elston Howard was then intentionally walked to load the bases, and Lonborg--after hitting a line foul off Jose Tartabull in the on-deck circle--struck out on three pitches...