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...Legion did not limit its actions to the lecture halls. In February, the Phoenix chapter tangled with a textbook named "Basic Economics," written by four Rutgers professors. Earlier in the year, the Phoenix Board of Education and the President of Phoenix College read the book and adopted it as standard course material. All went smoothly until the Phoenix Gazette printed an anonymous letter from an ex-army officer calling the book subversive and urging the College to drop...
...persistent rhythm of mating, egg laying, caterpillar collecting, pupation and maturing butterflies. Before he was eight, he was showing precocious skill at spotting rare specimens. "There had never been any question of an alternative career for me," acknowledges Leonard Hugh in a book, Butterfly Farmer, just published in England (Phoenix House...
...remain part of the ruins. But Pearson decided to stay anyway. He rose to be President Bowman Ashe's second in command, was picked as his successor after Ashe died last December. Last week, at Pearson's inauguration, visiting scholars and notables could see what a phenomenal phoenix the university had become: Pearson was officially taking over one of the fastest-growing campuses in the South...
...Legion did not limit its actions to the lecture halls. In February, the Phoenix chapter tangled with a textbook named "Basic Economics," written by four Rutgers professors. Earlier in the year, the Phoenix Board of Education and the President of Phoenix College read the book and adopted it as standard course material. All went smoothly until the Phoenix Gazette printed an anonymous letter from an ex-army officer calling the book subversive and urging the College to drop...
...Pickens arrived at a Denver television studio to begin a telethon appeal for donations to the National Cerebral Palsy Fund. After 14 hours on the air, with the fund $158,000 richer, Singer Pickens flew back to Manhattan for her regular TV show. Then she headed west again to Phoenix, where she raised another $60,000. bringing her personal fund-raising campaign in the past year to a total...