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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scientists do. San Diego tried it last year, got ,000 children of all mental levels to advance twice as fast. This year a revolutionary new textbook embodying the technique will spread throughout the U.S. Everywhere brighter children are reaching algebra much earlier, sometimes by the sixth grade. ¶ Foreign language study is soaring, especially in elementary schools. Last year the U.S. Office of Education urged all schools to begin ten years of language in the third grade, the most sound-sensing age level (all Russian children begin in the fifth grade). This year Washington, D.C. is starting third-grade French...
...highs even before the strike began-soared to a monthly record of 430,000 tons. The new imports brought the seven-month intake to 2.3 million tons, almost the equivalent of the output of a steel mill the size of Republic's 9,500-man Cleveland plant; foreign steel mills in 1959 had already sold U.S. customers more steel than in any full year in history. Republic Steel's Chairman Charles M. White warned that the walkout may well mean the permanent loss of part of the domestic steel markets to foreign producers "at the expense...
...Many people who are purchasing small imported cars will prefer first-class American transportation to the second-class transportation offered them by small foreign imports." So said Ford Motor Co. Chairman Ernest R. Breech last week, as Ford became the first of the U.S. Big Three to hold a press showing on closed-circuit television of its new 1960 compact car to newsmen gathered in 21 cities...
...likely moneybags in the Dominican Republic's Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo, always willing to pay for favorable publicity. Last week a federal grand jury in Washington charged that Guterma, 44, collected $750,000 from Trujillo to disseminate "political propaganda" and failed to register as an agent of a foreign power. The grand jury also indicted as defendants Hal Roach Jr. and Garland L. Culpepper Jr.. former officers of Mutual Broadcasting...
...week's end Guterma flew into Washington for arraignment, was released on $5,000 bail, raising to $25,000 his bail on three other federal indictments. Said lanky, tanned Guterma: "I have never been an agent for any foreign government, and I have no intention of being one." Roach and Culpepper also denied the charge, but the Dominican Republic announced that it had filed suit in the U.S. District Court against Guterma and associates for fraudulent misrepresentation, seeks return of the $750,000 it says it paid...