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...Britain was braced for the expected shock. At Scotland Yard a special control center was set up to coordinate minute-by-minute reports from an armada of police cars. Squadrons of spotter planes stood fueled and ready for takeoff. Said Transport Minister Ernest Marples: "We kept going during the blitz, and we shall keep going...
Culligan dismisses the company's financial plight with a wave of the hand: "Bankers love people who say, 'I'll double my profits next year.' " Already he has mapped out "national blitz-selling" campaigns, a "multilevel selling program." and a pride of new "inside" efficiencies. Culligan is confident that two heads will serve Curtis better than one. and for "in side man" he has chosen Vice President Clay Blair, 37, former Post managing editor. "It's a two-man job," he says, "as long as it's clear who's running the show...
...enthusiasm of a man who has fought for years to introduce "remote languages" (e.g., Chinese, Arabic, Swahili) into high schools. The China-born son of American missionaries, Fenn has spent 40 years teaching in the U.S. and China. During World War II Yale drafted him to help establish its "blitz" language program, which crammed U.S. soldiers with conversational Chinese in four months. Many of the high schools that have introduced Chinese have done so under Fenn's prodding-and most of them use the textbook developed at Yale...
Fenn's blitz is described by one teacher as "memorize, memorize, memorize. Listen and memorize, say and memorize, see and memorize."Even the most enthusiastic Thayer student realizes he will eventually sigh: "Wo hen lei [I am very tired...
...March 1961, after a two-year search for a minister, Broadway Presbyterian's congregation voted to "call" (invite) Merriam as their next pastor. Despite misgivings about his fundamentalism, the presbytery approved the choice and almost immediately found reasons to regret it. Merriam brought his huge German shepherd Blitz into the pulpit at a children's service. He earned a brief notoriety by tape-recording a telephone conversation with a State Department official about the problems of an exile from Iran, then playing the tape-including the official's off-the-cuff criticisms of Iranian corruption...