Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pope's host will be a familiar face: Italian Foreign Minister Amintore Fanfani, 57, elected president of the General Assembly's 20th session soon after it was gaveled to order last week. Fanfani, twice Premier of Italy, who won out over Yugoslavia's former Foreign Minister Koca Popovic, is the first Western European since 1960 to head the Assembly...
...brutal ultimatum to India has undoubtedly cost it some support among non-aligned countries. There will be demands for a vast disarmament conference that would include Peking, which the U.S. is not likely to welcome. The future of peace-keeping operations remains unresolved and controversial. To these familiar problems a new one has been added: Pakistan's threat to withdraw from the U.N. if the Kashmir ceasefire is not followed by a plebiscite in the disputed vale-something India is equally adamant in resisting...
...cultural bias" out of much testing. The more a test depends on verbal ability, for example, the more it favors the kid whose parents speak well or who read to him. The Otis all-picture test includes sketches of beehives and birds' nests, which may be more familiar to a country child than to a kid from a metropolitan housing project. Still, the question of cultural bias can lead to equally difficult problems. It may be, as Theodore Stolarz, director of the Chicago Teachers College Graduate School, contends, that IQ tests mainly predict "how a kid with a good...
...such experiments is the inexorable fact that the supply of water is limited. The earth has exactly as much water now as it ever had: no less, but no more. Unlike any other resource, the 326 million cubic miles of water are not used up. In nature's familiar, never-ending cycle, water falls to earth as precipitation, seeps underground, flows into lakes and streams, and rushes toward the oceans. Sooner or later, it evaporates back into the air or is given up by plants in the process of transpiration. An acre of corn gives...
...intellect in the first half of the nineteenth century will be new. No one else has ever approached the American past quite as Miller did, and his method stands in greater relief in this fragment than in his other books, largely because so much of the conventional history is familiar to us. Standard histories rarely discuss--rarely mention--the events and personalities Miller so vividly presents to us: the Great Awakening of 1857-58, the Reverend Charles Grandison Finney's revivals, the codifying patriotism of David Dudley Field, the fierce Irish eloquence of William Sampson, or any of a host...