Word: counting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...receiving contributions from all over the world. Kenneth Montgomery, a Chicago attorney, was so moved by the school's plight that he sent Pitts a check for $15,000. Residents of Bombay, India, raised $800 for the college, and readers in Paris chipped in with $500. At last count, the unsolicited individual contributions included well over $100,000 in cash and 40,000 books for the library...
...years that I have been your President," said Lyndon Johnson, "I have spoken on numerous occasions about the foreign policy of the United States. I naturally hope that my fellow citizens have read and remembered all these speeches. However, as a onetime schoolteacher, I am aware that one cannot count on universal enthusiasm for even the greatest literature. So I am not optimistic...
...London police were mounting a massive dragnet to track down the killers-and issuing tear gas and revolvers to the searchers. Whether the pistols would do much good was another question. Police Federation General Secretary Arthur Evans complained that, because of the old anti-gun tradition, "you could count on the fingers of one hand police trained in the use of firearms...
...development centers" and three more are under way, complete with dispensaries, trading centers and schools. In the village of Huai Fuang near the Laos border, last week about 50 students sat in crisp regulation white shirts and khaki shorts in an open, thatched-roof classroom, learning to read and count from a border policeman whose platoon had supplied the class uniforms and haircuts. On the wall behind the teacher were three objects that symbolized the new presence: a Thai flag, a picture of Thailand's King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit and a picture of the Lord Buddha. The police...
...geometric shapes, animal cutouts and numbers in felt ($3). Kenworthy Educational Service, Inc. has put out Programmed Reading Aids, a series with ten flip cards of words ($2.50), perception cards showing figures, domino patterns and numbers ($1), and such 65? workbooks as I Learn to Read and Primary Count and Color. More informative for parents is a record-booklet package, Teaching Jonny's Sister to Read ($4.95), in which Cambridge Housewife Henny Wenkart instructs her 4½-year-old daughter in reading...