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...data from the survey of 4,000 public schools and 645,000 students directed by Johns Hopkins Sociologist James Coleman, who concluded in 1966 that the quality of a school has little to do with how well its students learn. Jencks agrees. "The character of a school's output depends largely on a single input, namely the characteristics of the entering children," he writes. "Everything else-the school budget, its policies, the characteristics of the teachers-is either secondary or completely irrelevant...
...thrower, whereas the aboriginal product often does not. Be that as it may, Hawes has become Australia's boomerang king. He employs seven workers, who turn out 60,000 boomerangs a year. Most are sold in gift shops in major Australian cities, but a quarter of the output is shipped to North America and Europe for sporting clubs and wives whose husbands have everything else. In addition, about 150,000 paying tourists a year turn up at Hawes' bushland farm, which he calls a "boomerangery." Those who buy boomerangs get free usage lessons from Master Thrower Hawes. Altogether...
...regularly and skillfully exploited by the illicit international trafficker." The report unhappily notes that in Burma, where the annual opium harvest comes to a hefty 400 tons, the narcotics trade is "not viewed with great alarm." Authorities in Pakistan prefer to act as if their country's opium output, which runs as high as 170 tons a year, is really "quite small...
Died. Jules Remains, 86, French epic novelist, dramatist and poet and founder of the philosophy of unanimism; in Paris. Though his massive output since the turn of the century included successful plays, philosophical essays and mildly erotic fiction, Romains' masterwork was his 27-volume historical novel, Les Hommes de Bonne Volonte (Men of Goodwill). Fifteen years in the writing, with a cast of over 400 characters, the work embodies Remains' unanimist philosophy that man can only be fully defined in the context of the religious, familial and social groups to which he belongs. After completing the final volumes...
...doves, fishing wahoo and tarpon, doing each deed seriously and well with the finest equipment, at precisely the spot in the hemisphere where it is to be done best. No special portent is involved here; one of the novel's considerable virtues is that Blake's frivolous output of ergs is not intended to signify the decline of the West...