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...high school get its brain-busting math and science courses off the ground and make them soar through the students' minds? The Atlanta public schools have blue-skied a wingding answer: they are teaching the kids to fly airplanes. Last week the most advanced of 45 boys and seven girls in the courses offered by three Atlanta high schools began flying a new Piper Cherokee 140 lent to the schools by the manufacturer...
...changed more dramatically than the afternoon Gazette (100,000). In the last four years, the Republic has boosted its reporting staff from 65 to 100, stationed one reporter in Viet Nam while others roam, the globe. Arizona staffers have delved into such topics as poverty, the new math, smog, pornography, and corruption in the state tax commission. The paper fought successfully to save nearby scenic Camelback Mountain from private developers...
...Arbor, Mich. In rustically modern buildings, 230 boys are housed in individual rooms, attend classes of no more than a dozen students, share 22 fully certified teachers. Most of the boys take a technical curriculum, including such subjects as typing, auto mechanics and metal work, plus English, science, math, art and social studies. One group of 24 boys is pursuing a normal college-preparatory course...
...grown up in California's Imperial Valley, where his father made $4500 a year icing railroad cars. His mother, a Mexican, spoke little English, and neither parent wanted their son to go to college. The student's Scholastic Aptitude Test verbal score was 415, and his math score was 452. The college guide books caution that scores this low often indicate a serious inability to cope with college work. Yet the boy was first in his class, student body president, and a debater...
...tung's life reportedly fading after serious case of the gout. President Lyndon B. Johnson makes his 78th television appearance, surpassing President Eisenhower's eight year record by 29 and President Kennedy's total for three years by 45. In his address, Johnson explains the New Math...