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...revolutionary turn." That may be an exaggeration, but the left's increasing restiveness is becoming a problem for Indira. Only two days after the party meeting in Bombay came to an end, her government announced that the giant house of Birla, which is to Indian radicals what Dow Chemical is to the American variety, had been licensed to build a $75 million fertilizer plant in partnership with U.S. Steel. The National Herald, founded by Indira's father and now the unofficial organ of her wing of the Congress Party, condemned the deal as "unsustainable...
...experimental social studies program called "Man: A Course of Study." The one-year course was devised by Psychologist Jerome S. Bruner, director of Harvard's Center for Cognitive Studies, Irven DeVore, professor of anthropology at Harvard, Asen Balikci, an anthropologist at the University of Montreal, and Peter B. Dow of Education Development Center Inc., the nonprofit Cambridge firm that produces the course materials. "We're trying to present a point of view," says Bruner. "We want to give children some appreciation of what a fantastic species man is-that he's not helpless; that...
...known about the life cycles and behavior patterns of particular animal species (salmon, herring gulls, baboons). The animal facts are designed to stimulate freewheeling discussions about human behavior, mainly as the kids see it. "We are trying to rely as much on their insights as possible," says Course Director Dow. "We would argue that it's more fruitful to let the analogies grow out of the experience of the kids than to try to structure the analogies for them...
...David C. Dow, Middlesex County medical examiner, reported that Crabtree died of a "self-inflicted gunshot wound of the head...
Many other blue-chip companies have lost their historic appeal to big investors, partly because their growth prospects look small, and partly because of young brokers' thirst for quick gains. Under the circumstances, better news than any rise in the Dow may be that the Big Board's composite average and the S & P 500 have each gained 1% in the past two weeks...