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Many vital problems never reach Livingston Street. Requests to fix a falling ceiling vanish in a Byzantine fog. It may take years to get an updated syllabus in math or science. Everyone has horror stories about "The System," including Superintendent Gross, the highly skilled administrator who arrived from Pittsburgh last spring to try to bring order out of chaos. "I know one girl who was in the building for six hours just looking for someone to find a job application for teaching," says Gross with cool fury. "I'm going to humanize this system if I have to turn...
Bergman hit Paris like a wild north wind. In 1957, when a cycle of his films was first shown at La Cinémathèque Française, the main film library in Paris, hundreds of cinémanes stood in line night after night for three nights to get seats. "We were absolutely overthrown," says Director Truffaut. "Here was a man who had done all we dreamed of doing. He had written films as a novelist writes books. Instead of a pen he had used a camera. He was an author of cinema...
...result is unsurprising. In Boston, where special high schools require entrance exams, one Negro boy typically complains: "I never saw that kind of math before I went for the exam." In his recent civil rights speech, President...
Despite his early start in business (he went only as far as the eighth grade in school, but studied math nights as a teen-ager), Ludwig did not succeed in a big way until he was close to 40. The Depression washed out what little he had made in the '20s by buying war-surplus ships for charter, and a shipboard explosion left him with a painful back injury similar to President Kennedy's (it was cured in a risky operation a decade ago). In the mid-1930s, as the shipping market grew stronger, Ludwig broke through with...
...offbeat Ohio school (founded by Horace Mann), where students alternate between regular classwork and jobs far off campus. In fact, he was Antioch's "hidden president" for nearly three decades-the man who kept the academic fireworks safe and sane. Alexander began as a carpenter, switched to teaching math and industrial arts. Twice acting president, he guided five Antioch presidents in more than doubling enrollment (to 1,670) and faculty, and in raising endowment 25-fold. Antioch now has some 800 students off working in 35 states at any one time. A year-round calendar allows them to earn...