Word: equal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...education, CBS cameramen and reporters visited Bridgeport, Conn, and spent five weeks with the Class of '58 of Warren Harding High School. The frustrating question, not only at Harding but at most U.S. high schools: Why do two-thirds of the brightest graduates, with IQs at least equal to it, fail to go on to college? The answers were not new-lack of money or initiative, intense competition for a handful of college scholarships-but they were vividly personalized. By prolonged exposure to the camera crews, Harding's students and teachers were shorn of self-consciousness, caught with...
...Snyder, N.Y. (pop. 18,000), an upper-middle-class suburb of Buffalo, a school survey found that kindergarten tots are at their TV sets roughly half as much time (14.2 hours a week) as in their classrooms, but as pupils grow up to the sixth grade they devote almost equal time to school (27½ hours a week) and televiewing (26 hours a week). Other findings: ¶ Offered a choice, 51% of the children would prefer a sound spanking to a parental blackout of their favorite program. ¶ Parents must threaten or nag 43% of the youngsters to wrench them...
...Britain's Tory government has stood firm in the face of Labor's blasts. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan continues to insist that there would be no point to summit talks without "a hope of definite achievement." Viscount Hailsham, chairman of the Tory Party, was equally unenthusiastic about suspending British H-bomb tests so long as the Russians continue theirs. Said Hailsham: "Within the last week or two, I understand, [the Russians] have exploded devices equal to 3,000,000 tons of high explosives . . . On the assumption that I am right in thinking we are not in front...
...series a bracing, fact-filled musical kindergarten for young and old. He wrote his own scripts for four televised, hour-long concerts (the last is due next month), using much the same technique as in the Omnibus music-appreciation series (TIME, Feb. 4, 1957). Teacher Bernstein combined, in equal parts, his musical knowledge, charm, eloquence...
...trying to get in." In her new book, Novelist Martha (The Trouble I've Seen) Gellhorn takes the reader on a skillfully guided tour of the fortress; it is her special merit that she observes the outside as well as the inside (including some rarely seen rooms), with equal sensibility. Two by Two contains four studies of the married state, each taking its title from a vow in the marriage service...