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...taken four times more formal course work in "education" than in English, including only half a course in the teaching of reading, a subject that she barely touched in college. In ten years, only one out of seven high school English teachers has taken as much as one three-hour English course. Almost a third of the nation's 900,000 English teachers have avoided any formal English study for the past decade...
...years, honors students get no exams. Then outside scholars give eight three-hour written exams, followed by eight half-hour orals. Joined in common cause, teachers and students sweat out the results as the outsiders compile a single grade for each victim. "Most students who go on to graduate school," says one who did, "are quite prepared to say that Ph.D. examinations are pale shadows compared to that terrible fortnight at Swarthmore...
Surgeons at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson last week performed history's first recorded transplant of a heart into a human being. At first they refused to identify either donor or recipient, but later announced that the heart had come from a chimpanzee. In a three-hour operation, it had been transplanted into a man dying of irreversible heart disease. It beat for an hour, but proved too small, and the recipient died. In the fast-growing record of transplants, the initial failure was not nearly so significant as the fact that the surgeons' skills...
...craggy-faced despair and large-voiced grief, Jason Robards Jr. roams the bare multileveled arena stage of the center's temporary Greenwich Village home to narrate and act out the Miller's tale in a brilliant, grueling, three-hour performance. In the beginning, there was Mom. She is an angry, unfulfilled woman whose passport to college was revoked by a family-arranged marriage with a shipping merchant whom she regards as her inferior and lashes with verbal contempt. Infused with guilt by the warring parents and wanting to make up to Mom for her frustration and unhappiness...
...themselves the Ad Hoc Student Committee for Travel to Cuba set about organizing a trip to the island. The Committee finally sent fifty-nine students to Cuba for two months during the summer. Returning to New York, the students refused to surrender their passports to Immigration authorities. After a three-hour "sit-in," they were allowed to pass customs and leave the airport...