Word: brentwood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Computerized teaching, long tested and talked about, goes into operation this week. More than 100 first-graders at East Palo Alto's predominantly Negro Brentwood School will begin learning math and reading from a good-humored, patient, quick-minded machine...
...Carnegie Corporation, the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Office of Education. At first, he tested a primitive drill and practice system consisting of Teletypes hooked into a Stanford computer by telephone wires. The new IBM computerized teacher is housed in a windowless, thick-carpeted new building at the Brentwood School, and connects to 16 student-instruction "terminals" that have Teletypes, TV screens and speaker systems...
Died. Barbara Ann Rooney, 29, sometime actress, fifth wife of movie actor Mickey Rooney; by gunshot (.38-cal. pistol), apparently at the hand of her friend of recent months, Milos Milosevic, 24, a sometime actor, who then committed suicide; in Mickey's Brentwood, Calif., home, after she had visited her ill (with a blood infection) husband in a nearby hospital, and promised not to see Milosevic again...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Civil Rights Coordinating Committee last night elected Harold A. McDougall III '67, of Adams House and Brentwood, N.Y., as chairman and Thaddas L. Alston '67, of Winthrop House and Chicago, III., as vice-chairman...
...natives observe a rigid noonday ritual. The social elite-a breezy clique called the Palisades-Brentwood Singing and Drinking Association-hold court at cafeteria tables reserved by custom for them. Near by, like ladies in waiting, two plain girls snatch at conversational crumbs tossed by a pair of homecoming queens. At another table are the "social rejects"-girls on the fringes of the elite whose boy friends are now tired of them. "They are still allowed to go to parties," explains a guide, "but they aren't in on the really big decisions, like who the elite will back...