Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consciousness raised enough to cooperate with the Kalamazoo school-system task force, which produced a 154-page handbook as an antidote to its textbooks. The handbook will go to teachers this week; it gives page-by-page, line-by-line suggestions to them for changes when they discuss the stories. For example, it is recommended that after reading a certain story, the teacher will say: "Let's read the story again, substituting Nan for Dan. Isn't it just as much fun?" Or the teacher might pose the following problem after another tale: "Suppose Ben's mother...
...Many people were misled by Dixy Lee's life-style and expected her to be a character while others actually ran the show," a friend says. "Instead, she took command." Before Ray's reign, the AEC was notably reluctant to discuss the environmental impact of many key policies-except in court. To help change that situation, Ray outmaneuvered two of the agency's most effective and powerful figures, James Ramey and Milton Shaw. Ramey, an AEC commissioner since 1962, was the liaison man with Congress. Shaw, director of reactor development and technology, was the supertechnocrat...
Beyond Money. It was no surprise in Cameroon that the statue was in the U.S. (The U.S. embassy had been asked to discuss the matter with the Cameroon government in August.) But the new publicity about the sculpture caused a stir. Last week Thaddeus Nkuo, first secretary of Cameroon in Washington and himself a Kom, demanded its return, explaining: "It is beyond money, beyond value. It is the heart of the Kom, what unifies the tribe, the spirit of the nation, what holds us together. It is not an object of art for sale, and could...
...that followed closely on Richard Nixon's landslide re-election. Republican leaders who visited the president at Camp David. Md. or in New York during the four-day weekend, came to congratulate the "world's greatest peacemaker," to watch the annual Thanksgiving football rivalries on television and possibly to discuss plans for a cabinet post in the administration's second term...
...source said that major Republican leaders in the House and Senate will now await the outcome of the hearings on Ford's confirmation and then try to schedule a meeting to discuss resignation with the president...