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...most interesting high school in the U.S. today does not have a classroom it can call its own. But every week, some 30 to 40 school administrators come to Philadelphia to examine the Parkway Program high school...
...part of Philadelphia's board of education to deal with overcrowding in the city's high schools. Someone suggested setting up a school that would use such cultural facilities as museums and libraries for classrooms. Since many of them are located on tree-shaded Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the project was forthwith dubbed the Parkway Program. To run it, the board hired John Bremer, a 42-year-old British educator who had been head of a community-controlled school district in New York...
...York's Taconic Parkway with the cheerleaders. The toll-taker there told me that hitching is illegal, but that he didn't care what I did. He'd hitched as a boy. "It's illegal to use our john, too," he said, "but if you take a leak outside. they'll get you for indecent exposure. I'm all for it-not indecent exposure, but I still like my sex." He told me to pretend I didn't know him as I thumbed two feet away from his booth. But he waved goodbye when I got picked...
Talking Their Language. To put their house in order, the Beatles last February called in Allen Klein, 37, a New York City accountant who manages the Rolling Stones and Herman's Hermits. Klein also controls Cameo-Parkway Records, whose stock was delisted by the American Stock Exchange last year because of "an absence of adequate information" about its business dealings. Klein was indicted in New York federal court for income tax evasion in connection with his holding company, Allen Klein & Co. Two weeks ago, he signed a three-year management contract with the Beatles, cutting himself into...
...sentiments are echoed by La-Vannes C. Squires, 38, president of Kansas City's Swope Parkway National. The black-owned bank is "a major psychological need for the Negro, particularly the young," he says. Set up last July, Swope Parkway now has more than $3,000,000 in accounts...