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...storm had its pluses. Diehard Bronco fans, decked out in orange coats and scarves, watched Denver plow to a 17-14 victory. Schoolchildren had the next day off. Even the police got a lucky break: a woman suspected of robbing two banks was nabbed when her getaway car got stuck in the snow...
...seemed more like a fiesta than a state occasion, a jubilant celebration with blue skies and sunny faces. As platoons of schoolchildren paraded through the streets waving tiny blue-and-white Salvadoran flags, vendors sliced tangy strips of green papaya for hungry onlookers. The sizzle of hot dogs on the grill mixed with the blare of Chuck Mangione jazz over the loudspeakers. When each of the 45 foreign delegations was introduced, the velodrome in downtown San Salvador reverberated with the applause of 6,000 spectators. U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, his placid expression breaking into a grin, received...
Strassmann had been particularly active in Cambridge's Margaret Fuller House, an organization which offers tutoring for the city's schoolchildren. He had been teaching computer use to seven- to 12 year-olds...
Having been around magazines, I feel compelled to say that I have seldom seen a more knowledgeable or valuable handling of an important theme than your article on cholesterol [MEDICINE, March 26]. This is public service as one might always wish it. A recent study of schoolchildren in New York and Los Angeles shows that their cholesterol levels are about 35% higher than they ought to be. This is when the time bomb begins to click...
...downtown Peking's Tiananmen Square, the ritualistic rhythms clicked into high gear. A mob of choreographed schoolchildren waved enormous paper flowers toward the Reagans and chanted, in Chinese, "Welcome, welcome-warm welcome!" Across the square, crack drill squads of army, navy and air force troops stood at attention, bayonets fixed, and a People's Liberation Army unit fired off a 21-gun artillery salute. But the most intriguing welcoming committee had been pushed by police 300 yards back across Chang An Avenue to the perimeter, beyond Reagan's view: thousands of ordinary Chinese, most of them young...