Word: facings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five Americans-the children in U.S. public schools-the picture above is an image o; the future. Classroom TV is one way to face an overwhelming fact of U.S. life in a nation whose soaring birth rate now approaches India's. This week the new school year begins with a shortage of 195,000 teachers; the need is so great that nearly half the next decade's college graduates should theoretically become schoolteachers. TV will soon be familiar in more than 750 schools; in time, it will be used in the rest of them...
...Communist guerrillas operating out of northern Thailand, a fresh battalion of loyal troops was airlifted to threatened Samneua. And late in the week Laotian Foreign Minister Khampan Panya took a step that his government had desperately hoped to avoid, directed an urgent appeal to the U.N. Cabled Khampan: "In face of this fagrant aggression, for which [North] Viet Nam must bear the entire responsibility . . . the Royal Laotian Government requests the prompt dispatch of a [U.N.] emergency force...
Early one morning Thompson struggled into an all-black, leather driving outfit, snuggled his face into an oxygen mask, and climbed into a seat that slanted back like a chaise longue. A station wagon pushed Challenger I until her four engines caught at 80 m.p.h. Mile markers whipped past like rungs in a picket fence as the pale blue, aluminum-bodied car made a pass up and down the range at an average speed of 330.513 m.p.h.-64 m.p.h. faster than the American record he set last year...
Physically Cheng seemed unaffected by his hermit's existence. But as Ann Arbor police hauled him off to the county jail, his four-year preoccupation with loss of face suddenly vanished. Said he: "I have been a coward. I'm glad I was found...
...Bold Face. In Stockton, Calif., Teodoro Lopez Herrera held up a bank, was asked by the cashier to sign his name for the money he took, dutifully obeyed, was soon tracked down and arrested...