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Across the U.S., home-repair clubs retrieved a Pasadena woman's emerald ring that had been inadvertently flushed down the drain, exterminated night-chirping crickets that kept a Long Island insurance agent awake, sent a geologist to a Pacific homesite to estimate the danger of rockslides for a nervous homebuyer...
...large, the G.O.P. elders were pleased with the crop. Many of the candidates are lawyers, and several are doctors, though their ranks also include a California geologist, an Ohio newspaper publisher, an Indiana livestock salesman, and a South Dakota Sioux Indian who is a Harvard Ph.D. and was an official of the Bureau of Indian Affairs until he resigned to run for office. By and large they had a surprisingly strong conservative bent. In a representative cross section polled by a TIME correspondent, only a few chose to identify themselves as middle-of-the-roaders. A substantial majority arranged themselves...
Little Pigeons. A geologist's wife and mother of five, Teacher Joralemon began the school three years ago in her big Berkeley home, and used every minute of each 2½-hour school day to teach. Bouncing from piano to blackboard, she taught letters with rhymes ("A,B,C,D,E,F,G" Alphabet for you and me" ), soon had tots answering the roll in alphabetical order. At midmorning lunch, she used the French words for utensils, picked a "mother" and "father" to police manners at each table. Instead of wasting the legally required rest period, she said...
Every nation is convinced that it has oil - and who can say otherwise? Once abundant in comparatively few areas of the world (e.g., the Middle East, Venezuela, Texas), oil has been discovered in so many places (e.g., Libya, the Sahara, Europe) that there are few the geologist will flatly mark "no." The Group, after 22 years of searching, has even turned up oil right in its own backyard - two miles from its offices in The Hague, and virtually in the garden of one of its directors...
...career as teacher and geologist, Mather estimates he has taken oaths of allegiance to the Constitution "at least 50 times." His objection to the Teachers Oath centered around the need for a professor, presumably independent of the government, to take it. With such an oath, he stated, "Education would then become the crassest of propaganda and the fascist spirit would dominate a land from which liberty had been banished...