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...class, and my son spotted him one and one half hours before the final in the Greenhouse Cafe just beginning to work in his coffee and a stack of term papers at least twelve inches high. They had to be returned within a few hours. Anyone who watched this grader whip through several ten page papers at the rate of two to five minutes each would have wondered, "Why bother?" Like the person in your photograph this "instructor" did his work in circumstances marked by the distraction of excited talk and loud laughter and disruptive groans, punctuated by the clatter...
Meanwhile, relations with the U.S. rapidly deteriorated. Andropov may have had success in persuading Samantha Smith, the fifth-grader from Manchester, Me., who wrote to him, that the Soviet Union was interested in improving relations "with such a great country as the U.S." But the Reagan Administration was quick to voice skepticism about the sincerity of those sentiments. Following the Korean-airliner disaster, President Reagan accused the Soviet Union of committing "a crime against humanity." Moscow responded by taking the offensive. After Reagan unveiled new arms-control proposals last September, Andropov issued a statement with the most comprehensive denunciation...
...fences and tinkered with tractors. Everywhere, however, the question was the same: What did you think of The Day After, in which the town was atomized on television screens across the nation? "It showed just how awful an attack would be. Some kids cried," said Sarah Stewart, a ninth-grader at Central Junior High School. "There were some spots that moved me, but it did not teach me much," said Dar Malott, owner of Malott's hardware store. Said Alex Hamilton, a student at Lawrence High School: "It raised a lot of questions, like what...
...market for home video games may also be approaching a saturation point. Even some incorrigible joystick junkies are getting a bit jaded. Says Rawson Stovall, 11, an Abilene, Texas, sixth-grader who writes a weekly newspaper column for the Universal Press Syndicate under the name Vid Kid: "A lot of manufacturers flooded the market with some poor products. My friends are confused and disappointed by all of the stuff out there. A lot of the games are just not very exciting any more...
Jonathan, a sturdy sixth-grader who attends the Esterbrook School in Lexington, says that life at the Quad is "basically the same" as it was before the Flicks moved on campus five years ago. He admits a weakness for the Food Services Chinese dinner and mentions the facilities at the Quad as an attractive fringe benefit...