Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Merlin Bishop of Avon, international representative of the United Auto Workers, C.I.O.; Carl A. Gray of Farmington, manufacturer of electronics equipment; Mrs. Robert Mahoney of Hartford, trustee of the University of Connecticut; Mrs. Clifford F. Thompson of Wallingford, onetime state president of the P.T.A...
...postwar re-examination of the U.S. public school system, no state is ahead of Connecticut. In their separate cities and towns, 85 different citizens' groups have been organized to find out what their schools need, and then get action started. Cause of all the activity: a five-man fact-finding commission appointed two years ago by Governor Chester Bowles and headed by Norwalk Commuter Norman Cousins, editor of the Saturday Review of Literature. Last week Cousins & Co.* summed up what school-minded Connecticut citizens had learned and what they were doing about...
While the 85 cities and towns were examining themselves, the commission was looking at Connecticut as a whole. Among its recommendations: a string of community colleges, a system of state scholarships, reorganization of school districts to streamline administration. The commission also suggested higher salaries for teachers, a state TV station strictly for education, and a re-examination of "the whole question of homework...
...Connecticut's movie-profiled Republican John Davis Lodge paraded to the State House in midafternoon, found that the Democrat-controlled Senate had refused to show up for the swearing-in as prescribed by law and custom. After a corps of lawyers had scoured the Constitution and legal precedent, Lodge decided he could do without the rebellious Democrats, was sworn in before only the Republican House just nine minutes before midnight...
...Mail Order. Today, EB is one of the most prosperous properties ($2,000,000 net in royalty revenues since 1943) of the University of Chicago. It became such seven years ago, when ex-Adman William Benton, now Democratic Senator from Connecticut, maneuvered its transfer from Sears, Roebuck & Co. ("Do you think it appropriate that a mail-order house should own the encyclopaedia?" he had asked). Benton still heads EB's board of directors, while Chicago's retiring Chancellor Robert M. Hutchins still presides over its board of editors. The top editing job belongs to wiry Editor Walter Yust...