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...this case the focus of attention was the Amiga, a personal computer introduced by Commodore four years ago, whose sagging sales and fading image the company is trying to repair. Said Commodore president Harold Copperman: "This is not a celebration of new technology. This is a strategic repositioning and repackaging...
When freshman senasation Carol Sullivan tapped in a short-handed goal after a Judy Copperman wrist shot with 1:39 gone in the third period to give Northeastern a 2-0 lead, the Huskies secured the triumph...
...number of students (and teachers too) was expanding tremendously as a result of the maturing crop of post-World War II babies. In the decade before 1969, the number of high school teachers almost doubled, from 575,000 to nearly 1 million. Writes Reading Expert Paul Copperman in The Literacy Hoax: "The stage was set for an academic tragedy of historic proportions as the nation's high school faculty, about half of whom were young and immature, prepared to meet the largest generation of high school students in American history." To compound the problem, many teachers had been radicalized...
...rarely decide what books are finally bought. The textbook business is a $1.3 billion a year industry. Books are ordered by editorial committees and updated at the pleasure of the publisher to sell in as many school systems as possible. Since the late 1960s, according to Reading Expert Copperman, publishers have found that if a textbook is to sell really well, it must be written at a level "two years below the grade for which it is intended...
...symphony last year, critics praised its smooth string playing (its motto: "Every man a Heifetz"), the variety of its music. But when the Janssen Symphony wangled eight dates on California's Standard Symphony Hour, the Los Angeles Philharmonic began to jitter. The Philharmonic, founded in 1919 by Copperman William Andrews Clark Jr., and nurtured until his death in 1934 by about $3,000,000 of his money, now depends on the public for support (deficit: $100,000 or more a year). The Philharmonic was afraid that Los Angeles could not support two symphonies...