Word: calif
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Situation Adjustment. In Compton, Calif., when burglars held up Liquor Store Owner Max Stanman, and invited the half a dozen customers in the store to help themselves, customers and crooks alike marched out with arms full...
...Park. In Bakersfield, Calif., racing after a line drive in the 13th inning of a California League baseball game, Modesto's Centerfielder Harry Mayo jammed his arm through the outfield fence, was unable to shake it loose, watched helplessly as the opposing team scored the winning...
...instead of four. In Richmond, high schools will begin a five-year program of 23 courses. In the Peekskill (N.Y.) High School, a Conant-inspired inventory should become the best persuader yet for top students not trying for college (36% of the brightest girls. 28% of the boys). Pasadena, Calif, has started summer schools for students who wish to accelerate (a Conant recommendation), expanded guidance from one counselor per 500 students to one per 300. added an optional seventh period to the high school...
...changing radically from the "egg crate" method of locking all students by age in one grade under a pass-fail system. The new method: the "ungraded school," which usually means eliminating grades one, two and three (as in Marblehead, Mass.) and using ability grouping by subject. In Torranee, Calif., fourth, fifth and sixth graders are being lumped together in a "multigrade" school so that children of different ages can stimulate each other. In East Alton, III., small groups of six to ten move at their own pace; children who reach seventh grade ahead of time take "enrichment" courses...
...Vice President of the U.S., Richard M. Nixon-Whittier Union High School, Whittier, Calif...