Word: basic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many as 1,000 students. The new schools (about 90 so far) remodeled on a familiar U.S. pattern: the big, inclusive high school. They have headaches also familiar to Americans, including Teddy boys who carry flick knives to class, smash windows, abuse masters. But they do solve the basic problem: how to give late starters a chance to switch from one track to another. Says Headmaster George Rogers of London's Walworth Secondary School: "This year I shall have a sixth form of 20 students all studying for certificates at university-entrance levels. Not bad for eleven-plus failures...
...paintings hanging in it. Valued at $2,100,000, Beaverbrook's collection provides the gallery with a comprehensive sampling of British art from Hogarth to Francis Bacon, representative works of nearly all Canadian artists of stature, plus a scattered few paintings by Europeans. Other Canadian tycoons supplemented the basic collection with gifts of their own. Toronto's Matthew James Boylen (asbestos, copper and lead mines) presented the new gallery with 22 Krieghoffs; the estate of the late Sir James Dunn (steel and iron ore) added three Sickerts and Dali's huge Santiago El Grande, whose rearing horse...
...form and short on judicial substance." He advised transferring the CAB's policy-making functions to an executive department and setting up a court of experts with the powers of adjudication to decide major cases and hear appeals from administrative decisions. Concluding his valedictory, Hector warned that the basic policies of federal economic control "can no longer be left to a group of agencies each operating independently of the other and independent of any executive coordination or control...
...fiasco nor an unqualified triumph for either party. The Premier's tour was of course bungled, ever so slightly, as it was bound to be; Khrushchev, on the other hand, did not exactly induce any false sense of security with his occasional beligerence and his obvious intransigence on many basic issues...
...Advocate starts out the year with an interesting assortment of pieces, some written with facility, none brilliant, but none without a certain basic competence. The fiction this issue has the advantage of attracting immediate interest, of relating a coherent story, unlike so many other previous pieces which may represent experiments in style, but which are virtually impossible to get through...