Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...collection of salamanders up to 16. In Chicago, where a year ago this week the confrontation of cops and youthful demonstrators polarized the nation, the talk in blue-collar saloons and on the commuter trains was of the Cubs and Ken Holtzman's no-hitter against the Atlanta Braves. Atlanta's Mayor Ivan Allen casually headed for a ranch in Wyoming where he can get in touch with his city hall only by a horseback canter out of the woods to a telephone. In Los Angeles, the fizz and even the anti-fuzz had gone out of this...
Greasy Kid Stuff. Drysdale's reputation was built on more than statistics. His penchant for throwing "dusters" prompted Atlanta Braves Slugger Hank Aaron to label him a "mean" pitcher, and San Francisco Manager Herman Franks hinted last year that Drysdale had more on the ball than honest sweat. That led to Drysdale's "greasy kid stuff" commercial,* which still regularly appears on television. His boyish visage and brash charm also won him spots on The Rifleman and the Donna Reed Show, and he once sang with Milton Berle in a Las Vegas nightclub. He also owns a rich...
Seven-Ton Solution. Atlanta's plan was painstakingly evolved over a three-year period by teachers, principals and administrators. When the principals' committee met for six weeks last summer to develop the complex new schedules and curriculum guide, it used up more than seven tons of paper. So many factors were involved in scheduling new classes and redistributing teaching and classroom assignments that the Atlanta School System had to develop its own computer program. Says John Martin, a former assistant superintendent who directed the curriculum changeover: "The computer is as essential to our system...
More than 250 other school districts have recently considered year-round classes. Atlanta has had inquiries from 37 states and 89 cities about its plan. New York State's education department last year recommended an eleven-month school calendar, is now drafting implementing legislation...
...Moreover, if a school system operates twelve months instead of nine, it can provide nine months of education per year for one-third again as many students. But pilot studies have demonstrated no appreciable economies and have shown that there is opposition to compulsory attendance during the summer quarter. Atlanta, by encouraging voluntary summer participation to broaden the learning process rather than merely to increase efficiency, may have found a way to do both...