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...apparent improvement at Southie High. One major cause, however, is quite concrete. Walk down to Kelly's Landing in Southie, turn to the southeast and take out a good pair of binoculars--you can see signs of the infinitely promising educational enterprise unfolding a mile out in Boston Harbor. Every school day for seven weeks this fall, a specially recruited group of 30 ninth- and tenth-graders from Southie High--both male and female, black and white--will travelout to Thomson's Island to participate in an innovative environmental education program...
...atmosphere of Cold-War hysteria still hung low, if somewhat less thick than in the 50's, over most of middle-America. But Alan Arkin's comic franticness in this tale about a small New England coastal village thrown into a frenzy when a Russian ship docks in its harbor and the Reds start mixing with the town-folk should still be good for some belly-laughs...
...specifically concerned with the treaty that Jimmy Carter is now selling to Congress. Wiseman wishes instead to show how the zone functions. In a progression of characteristically deadpan scenes, he records the mundane activities that define a typical day in the zone: freighters pass through its harbor; Army wives shop at supermarkets; the Governor meets with the press. Wiseman is especially fascinated by the community's many patriotic ceremonies. Whether the Zonians are at church or on the tennis court or out for a banquet, they are forever pledging and singing their allegiance to the flag with the fervor...
...clean and fish will again swim in the Mahoning. Last week Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., a subsidiary of Lykes Corp. and the nation's eighth largest steelmaker, announced that it will stop most production at its 76-year-old Campbell Works, moving operations to modern mills in Indiana Harbor, near Chicago...
...those advantaged juniors is Mike Kelly, a home-grown product from Watertown who prepped a year at Exeter (of which Curry is a candidate) before hitting the Ivy League. Kelly appears to harbor no butterflies about possibly starting because he has been "getting a lot of work lately" and has had a chance to throw to Curry, who should help out the quarterbacks considerably...