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This "comprehensive" pattern of secondary school education, familiar in the U.S. and Britain, is unknown in Nigeria. Most students drop out of school after six years or less of primary schooling. Only a small group pass a stiff exam and reach secondary school. The successful few then separate into "classical," trade, or teacher-training schools...
Editor Campbell has set his sights am bitiously high. Except on an experimental basis. USA* 1 will not be sold on news stands, and will take full-page ads only ("more dignified"). Although the maga zine's opening subscription rate was a stiff $10 a year (it will rise to $15 in May), test mail solicitations pulled some 125,000 charter subscribers. Those who signed up should feel little pain as they pay the high price of news-plus-history: according to a recent survey, their average income exceeds $26,000 a year...
Weather permitting, the Crimson will play away Saturday against a tough Cornell team. Although coach Jack Barnaby's squad has won its last hour contest without losing an individual match, they face a stiff opponent in the Big Red. Barnaby admitted he was "worried about this...
...time problem that is most disconcerting for independents. Some kind of numerical requirement must, after all, be set, and three per cent of the gubernatorial vote, while perhaps a little stiff, is justifiable. But there is no reason why the nominating petitions couldn't be released earlier. No particular date for this has been legally specified; and bureaucratic inefficiency can not be a valid excuse for a delay which unjustly penalizes independent candidates. The alternative is extending the petition deadline to a time closer to the actual elections...
...Greenfield's dancing and choreography are eccentric, and at times a little awkward, but she dances very well. She portrays the sensuousness, the fear, and the rigid dignity of the Queen with perfect confidence. Her dancing is stiff, but dramatically right; when her fingers open stiltedly you think of them as somehow organic, like something growing in jerks. Lance Morrow is grave as the fearful and proud King, and the music and the direction complement the motion nicely...