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...schools of Africa, up to 81 % of the students drop out. In South Asia, many of those who graduate from college cannot find jobs. In Western Europe and the U.S., campus after campus was until recently torn apart by student protest. Meanwhile, around the world, there have been independent educational experiments-scuole senza muri (schools without walls) in Italy, radnicki universiteti (workmen's universities) in Yugoslavia, ensehanza en equipo (team teaching) in Spain, open schools in the U.S. Have such innovations helped education cure its ills and adapt to modern social and economic needs? If not, what might...
...along come Eagles. "The News Buffalo Springfield." Even with the success of the Springfield offspring Poco, Loggins and Messina, the time is still somehow ripe for another Buffalo Springfield. And Eagles seem to fit They're torn from the Los Angeles tradition. The four members have done time with the Bvrds Dillard Clark as well as LA's second wring folk rock hand the ones that never made it past saloons. Scraped from these ruins each member knowing another from less successful days. Eagles have one man in common. David Gellen head of Asylum Records Geffen sent the band...
...letters is torn open, a tiny spring hits a detonator little larger than an aspirin, which explodes the plastique. The whole thing can weigh less than an ounce and be scarcely one-eighth of an inch thick. But its lethal range can be three feet...
...purely statistical grounds it could be as much as 8 points in error -which would still yield at least a 9-point Nixon edge. What the Gallup findings do indicate is that a segment of the population that once seemed trimly tailored to a McGovern candidacy is now torn between the two candidates and provides a lush field for cultivation and competition by the two camps...
...number of antiwar liberals last week when he wrote: "The basic fact is that the country is faced with an unhappy choice." With Nixon representing the Republican right and McGovern the Democratic left, Kraft observed, there are "no good options. The middle ground of American politics has been torn to tatters." Moreover, he added, McGovern's "performance in the campaign continues to raise questions about his capacity to govern." New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker, a Nixon critic of long standing, has not been quite so stern, but he called attention last week to "a long McGovern summer...