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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concentrate the great bulk of grades around the middle." He suggested that "the grades may be more accurate overall if this centripetal force is resisted, and if deliberate attention is given to the matter of having somewhat higher grades at the top, and somewhat lower grades at the bottom...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: Griswold Wants More High Grades, Failures | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

...added, "Some students who are moving into our second and third years do seem to be very weak, and it might be desirable to push the bottom standard a little higher, and to encourage these doubtful cases to look elsewhere...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: Griswold Wants More High Grades, Failures | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

GRAND CANYON (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Naturalist Joseph Wood Krutch is guide for a mule trip from the rim to the bottom of the canyon and a boat ride down the Colorado River rapids. Color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 28, 1965 | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

...SUCCESSO. As an ambitious young executive who sheds wife, friends and integrity en route from the bottom of the barrel to the top of the heap, Vittorio Gassman demonstrates how to succeed Italian-style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 28, 1965 | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

...billion of the President's proposed $4 billion tax trim involved taxes that were due to expire June 30 anyway (such as the tax on air tickets), businessmen cheered the cut's timing. It will not only help raise sales of some items at their seasonal bottom (TV sets, furs, phonographs), but also prevent a slump in peak-time sales of autos and air conditioners by making their cuts retroactive to May 15. Automen, anticipating sales of 250,000 more cars this year as a result of the cut, promised prompt excise refunds (direct from Detroit) on cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taxes: The Logical Step | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

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