Word: daniels
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Princeton Research Chemist Daniel S. Trifan, 43, and his wife face one year in jail for home-teaching their three children, whose tested IQs are in the genius range of 150-160. According to the West Windsor Township school board, they have broken the New Jersey law that requires all children to attend school or "receive an equivalent instruction elsewhere." Though the Trifans use Baltimore's famed Calvert School (tuition: $85 yearly), which gives lessons by mail to thousands of overseas and shut-in children, School Superintendent Francis Walton interprets the law to require "a classroom education." Children, says...
...they were still babies," recalls Mrs. Trifan. "They each knew the alphabet by their second birthday-it was sort of a birthday present." At three, each of the children could read. At six, each had passed third-grade subjects. Richard, 7, is now in Calvert's fifth grade, Daniel, 9, is in the seventh, and Marioara, 11, completed the eighth last June. This puts them three grades ahead of their ages...
...five artists imported last week raised no questions at all. Four of them had painted New Englanders or New England scenes, ranging from George P. A. Healy's glowering portrait of Daniel Webster to a lighthearted Bathing, Marblehead by Maurice Prendergast. There was a Maine scene by Winslow Homer, and the brooding Houses of 'Squam Light, Cape Ann by Realist Edward Hopper. Finally, with the President's home ground taken care of, came a typical Jacqueline touch. In choosing two rare Italian scenes in watercolor by John Singer Sargent-Venice's La Dogana (Customs House...
Argument also centered on the revenue that would come from strict enforcement of the parking code. Although Police Chief Daniel J. Brennan, Mrs. Wheeler, and City Manager John J. Curry stressed that the stricter fines were not to bring more revenue into the city, Vellucci emphasized the economic factor...
Aaron's "parting shot" is the direction first reading of Tomorrow Morning a new play by I. A. Richards, Professor. The play will be on May 12, 13 on the Loeb main . The cast includes I. A. Richards Daniel Seltzer, instructor in Robert H. Chapman, director of the Drama Center and several other members...