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...year five weeks across the board, dedicating the bonus hours to intensive reading instruction. The shift paid off at test time. The four schools on the new calendar raised their scores, and one landed among the state's best performers. The longer year is so popular, reports principal JoAnn Bester Clay, that some parents and children want to abolish summer break. "I don't have a real vacation, since all I do is sit home," says sixth-grader La'Chet Henderson. "This gives me something...
...Diefenbaker shows occasional flashes of the evangelical fire of the prairie lawyer that carried him to power in 1957 and again in 1958, but too often seems curiously defensive. Behind stolid placards intoning CARRY ON, JOHN (the Pearson adherents do no better with: BESTER WITH LESTER), Diefenbaker earnestly justifies the benefits of a devalued dollar in terms of increased trade, talks of recent improvements in unemployment, rising income and production. As to devaluation: "The only people who can be annoyed are those who want to visit the U.S." Finally, realizing that he was not getting through, Diefenbaker announced...
Sunday Showcase (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). A young architect attempts to replace his dead father as a circus magician in Turn the Key Deftly, an original mystery by Alfred Bester, with Julie Harris, Francis Lederer and Maximilian Schell. Color...
...other workers are hurting, lining up for state unemployment aid, living off their wives' jobs. Only a handful get emergency help from the United Steelworkers; the union has no national strike war chest. Despite their handicaps, the workers are also determined to see the strike through. Said Earl Bester, boss of 22,000 strikers in the Lake Superior region: "I won't say we're happy, but we're not weakening. We can hold out till spring if we have...
Shapley stated that a telegram from the South African station credited M.J. Bester with making the discovery According to the cablegram from J. S. Paraskevopoulos, superintendent of the Observatory location of the new comet is seven hours, 37 minutes and its declination is 75 degrees south. Its magnitude is 7.5 making it visible through a telescope...