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Students and parents interviewed hailed the program as a success. Jason Nowlan, a sixth grader in his seventh year in Amigos, says that while he does not understand every word of the Spanish-language lessons, he is able to "piece it together." He says he did not find it confusing to switch languages weekly...
...government sacrifice too, by giving up the high- calorie programs that help Congressmen get re-elected, the agencies that keep bureaucrats employed, the pet programs that have marinated in think tanks during the Democrats' years in the wilderness. "If he increases taxes simply to spend more money," says James Nowlan, president of the Taxpayers' Federation of Illinois, "then public cynicism will only increase...
...John Dille, head of the National Newspaper Syndicate, decided to put out a science-fiction comicstrip, he did some reading in sci-fi magazines-then just entering their fabled Golden Age-and found two stories he liked; "Armageddon 2419 A. D." and "The Warlords of Han." both by Phil Nowlan. He fast-talked Nowlan into writing the new strip, got him together with an artist named Dick Calkins, and let him go. The strip that resulted ran for almost forty years in newspapers all over the world...
...Nowlan, a deep-dyed sci-fi fanatic, was not going to let any garbage about what the public would accept stand in the way of his imagination. When I began the book I expected to see the usual massculture view of the future world: the glory of the future American superstate-usually a "World Government" democratically ruled by Americans-in which supercars zoom over mega-highways toward ultracities. But on page 21 found myself staring at the Destruction of the Washington Monument by the Mongols...
...Phil Nowlan and I created Buck Rogers, and all Dille did was peddle it. If anybody wants to shoot it out, I have my old Colt .45s oiled up. To hell with them thar disintegrator guns. They won't work out here...