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...high-school section "Using Tools of Communication Effectively," Hildebrand counted 44 items on "listening," e.g., "listening to a telephone conversation," "listening to the words of a song." He also noted under "Using Mathematics" such items as "counting change as cashiers do" and "opening a checking account and making out deposit slips." Bottom ways of "using mathematics": "making geometric constructions" and "forming and using equations to solve problems...
...formula for desegregation, based on his observation that deep-seated racial prejudices disappear when Southerners stand up. Explaining his Golden Vertical Negro Plan in the Israelite, Golden deadpanned: "The South, voluntarily, has all but eliminated vertical segregation. The white and Negro stand at the same grocery and supermarket counters, deposit money at the same bank teller's window, pay phone and light bills to the same clerk. It is only when the Negro 'sets' that the fur begins to fly." Urged Golden: "Provide only desks in all the public schools of our state; no seats." Though...
...guard against frivolous visitors and suspected pirates, every manufacturer has to deposit $1,500 (deductible from future purchases) just to get in. Store buyers deposit $430. In the grey-and-gold salon the atmosphere is as tense and excited as a first night on Broadway. Smart, lean women in the toque hats of the latest...
...enrolls in a creative-writing course. A story about his "true friends" and eccentrically named roommates, David Tall Man and Snowjob Porter, convinces the professor that Pat is a "born writer." But daddy Kingsgrant, a Yankee lawyer with a Park Avenue penthouse and a mind like a safety-deposit box, is not so easily hurdled. Pat scoops up his Brooks Brothers suits and heads for a Manhattan hovel to finish the Great American Novel...
...RATE PESETAS will be sold by Spain to U.S. travelers. To spur foreign tourist trade and combat flourishing black market, the Franco government will let Americans deposit dollars in U.S. banks, pick up pesetas in Spain at rate of 46 to $1 v. current pegged rate of 38.95 per $1. Spain is also considering general devaluation of its weak peseta...