Word: conways
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...experiment" in teacher training two years ago, now has 15 colleges in the state participating. The idea is to persuade students to go into teaching by giving them four years of the liberal arts plus a fifth year of professional internship at either the State Teachers' College at Conway or the University of Arkansas. In 1953-54, the plan got 30 recruits. Total applicants for next fall...
...like skiing, though, the snowy hinterlands report generally good to excellent conditions. New Hampshire is one of the most accessible areas for the Harvard skier. North Conway's Cranmore Mountain, whose trails are served more Mountain, whose trails are served by their famous skimobile, offers a variety of trails for most beginning and intermediate skiers. A few miles past North Conway, in the increasingly popular Jackson area, are Balack and thorn Mountains. At Black Mountain there is a 2500-foot Alpine lift, and at Thorn a 4000-foot chair lift supplemented by two rope tows which give access...
...career of Bill Glasgow, reporter, a native of Warren, Ark., began at Hendrix College, Conway, Ark. As he recalls it: "I'm still baffled at what prompted me to get into this business, although I well remember when it happened. It was one day in the fall of 1933. The editor of the college paper issued a call for reporter candidates. Though I had never shown any interest in news beyond reading it, I suddenly found myself applying and being told that since I had no experience I would have to submit samples of my work...
Died. Edith Conway Ringling, 84, widow of Circus Founder Charles Ringling (who died in 1926) and board chairman (since 1950) of Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus; in Sarasota...
...fruit of the recently signed ten-year agreement between Westinghouse and Rolls-Royce (TIME, June 22) will probably be an announcement that Westinghouse will build the British Avon RA16 jet engine (9,000 lbs. thrust) which will power Britain's Comet IIIs, and possibly the new top-secret Conway, expected to have a thrust matching Pratt & Whitney's J-57, now the world's most powerful jet engine...