Texas housewife leads critique of schoolbooks in Texas
Norma Gabler of Longview has spent more than a decade scrutinizing Texas textbooks, rallying parents and groups to challenge series such as MACOS and The People Make A Nation. She cites bias and negative framing, urging local boards to oppose adopted texts and file formal objections by August 1 with detailed reviews by August 10.
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Clayton Hickerson
Associated Press
Longview, Tex
Mel Gabler
Longview
Norma Gabler
Texas
Norma
Mel
H.D. Vanderlee
Tyler
Charles Baker
Sanger
Roger Annan
Conroe
Billy Loyn
Farmers Branch
State Board of Education
MACOS
Bonham
Harlingen
Midland
Odessa
San Antonio
Alamo Heights
Cypress-Fairbanks
Houston
Baytown
Texas City
Gabler
Allyn & Bacon
Gablers
Edgar
Greyhound Offers Folding Bikes for Busline Tours
Greyhound terminals sell compact folding bikes priced at 89.95, down from 119.95. Each light bike folds for luggage compartments and comes with pump lights generator rack case and toolkit. Combined with Ameripass the bikes enable inexpensive nationwide exploration. Contact Greyhound Phoenix terminal or Dept NR for more details.
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Phoenix
Greyhound
Land
Ameripass
America
Greyhound Lines
Merrill Rueppel to direct Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Merrill C Rueppel director of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts is slated to become director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The Boston Globe reports Rueppel will take over the post left vacant after Perry Rathbone retired last spring. Rueppel, 47, was assistant director of the City Museum of St Louis.
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Boston
Merrill C. Rueppel
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Boston Globe
Rueppel
Museum
Perry Rathbone
City Museum of St. Louis
George Seyboldt
Boston Museum
The Women opens at Midland Community Theatre Stage
The Women by Clare Booth Luce opens March 16 at Midland Community Theatre in a modern interpretation. Ed Graczyk designs panoramic sets and Art Cole directs, with MCT membership sales through March 31. Options for box office, reservations and future Theatre Centre productions are noted.
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Midland Community Theatre
Clare Booth Luce
New York
Nevada
Art Cole
Ed Graczyk
MCT
Theatre Centre
CBS affiliates produce history making CBS morning series
CBS airs a five part affiliate produced series on death on the morning news show. WCCO TV of Minneapolis produced the reports led by Don Kladstrup with four five minute segments and one thirteen minute finale focusing on a dying 17 year old athlete. The project marks the first affiliate produced series on a regular network news show though CBS has long allowed such pieces.
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Jay Sharbutt
New York
CBS
NBC
ABC
Don Kladstrup
Wcco-Tv
Minneapolis
Minn
Richard Clark
Clark
Chicago
Larry Pomeroy
Richard S. Salant
CBS News
WCCO
Salant
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Kbim-Tv
Vin Scully
Walter Cronkite
Kmom-Tv
Marcus Welby
Wide World of Entertainment
Texas Education Agency
Busline
Kosa-Tv
Merv Griffin
Jeannie
Maude
Hawkin
CBS Late
Dallas
Fine
Kmid-Tv
Peyton Place
NBC America
P.O
Baltimore Opera
Young
Baltimore
Baltimore Opera Company
United States
Carling Brewing Co
Duane L. Peterson
The
Opera Guild
Alfred C. Ver Valen
Dragi M. Jonanovski
Pecos Enterprise
Pecos Cablevision
Neares Center
Blue Cross Prrs
Sue Romine Sed Medical Associaton
Texas Hospital Nagle
Texas Osteopathic Medical Association
Texas Osteope
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