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Film has not been shunned because it is scarce. Some 250 companies have churned out 28,000 educational films-a rich, if spotty, lode of material largely unworked by U.S. teachers. The trouble with films, says Dr. Wayne Howell, director of educational development for Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc., has been their "impossible logistics." Teachers have had to request films far in advance from distant distribution centers, use them upon arrival even if their class was not ready, ship them back immediately. Heavy, complex projectors have had to be hauled from storage, set up in the classrooms, operated skillfully. Films have...
...spring. More than ever, it was a strange hybrid of beauty and banality, a midsummer's daydream constantly interrupted by nightmares. Lush gardens with brooks and splitlog benches, dogwood trees and primrose bushes delighted the enchanted while only a whiff away peddlers hawked scented sachets and the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The New York Botanical Garden's 500-ft. tropical rain garden, adorned with a climbing cissus vine and rock pool, was back to back with Woolworth's counter, where salesgirls touted 880 packages of Venus Fly Trap, billed as "Nature's Magic Toy," which "Catches insects! Eats...
...most reading primers are compiled from word lists that have no logical basis; each list came from a survey of the most used words in older readers, and all went back to McGuffey, "who must have obtained his list from God." Sullivan and a research team financed by Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc. compiled their lists instead by exploring the world of the five-year-old. "A little kid is very sane," says Sullivan. "He just won't pay any attention to something not intrinsically interesting...
Eight Harvard and Radcliffe students currently spend about six hours a week teaching small classes in mathematics, English, and current events to 11 boys from Houghton, Webster, and Harrington schools. PBH supplies $30 per student for books, magazine subscriptions, and transportation costs. The Britannica Co. donated five $20 teaching machines to the project...
...lifetime spanning the Industrial Revolution and the Space Age, the Empire he set out to defend had evaporated. Pax Britannica had become a Pax Americana, sustained by a weight of resolve and physical might that Churchill had fruitlessly implored his own countrymen to accept as the price of peace. His words, his example, his courage were indelibly engraved on the minds of free men. With his passing. the world was diminished and felt it. Amid all the public outpourings of tribute and grief, no words struck a nobler note than the heartsick message that Winston Churchill broadcast to the people...