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...State faced a wholesale boycott by parents who believed religion was as essential a part of an education as any of the three R's. They were seriously considering the advantages of parochial schools. So that public schools could hold their place as a meeting ground and a melting pot for children of all religions, nationalities, and classes, school officials decided to give parents a choice: they could send their children to religious schools during the "released" hour, or they could keep them in school...
...Painted on the refectory wall at Milan's Santa Maria della Grazie, Leonardo's masterpiece started going to pot even before his death, has faded and flaked so badly that only the barest details remain...
Tires & Symbols. Frenchmen and foreigners alike rely on the verdicts of Michelin; over the years, the guidebook has built up a reputation for accuracy and incorruptibility. Its motto is Pas de piston, pas de pot de vin-roughly, "No pull, no bribery." Not a line of paid advertising is carried on its pages...
Special Delivery. Britons play the pools so eagerly because they offer one of the few real-if remote-opportunities to get rich in Britain's high-tax, austere economy. Even the biggest payoffs are taxfree, since the government takes its 30% out of the pot...
...Lamp for Nightfall, he un-limbers the old routine in a Maine setting. This time it is the old Yankee stock that is going to pot, steadily losing ground to the more vital "Canucks" and "square-heads." Take the Emerson family, Author Caldwell's prime exhibit: Thede Emerson. richest man in Clearwater, has $200,000 in the bauk, but will he let his son Howard go off to college in Boston? No, he keeps him at home doing chores so he won't have to get a hired man. Thede hates the French Canadians, but he is letting...