Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mexican American is his Spanish language, because it holds him back in U.S. schools. Mexican Americans average eight years of schooling, two years less than Negroes and a full four years less than whites. Often they are forced to learn English from scratch in the first grade, and the frequent result is that they become not bilingual but nearly nonlingual. In Texas, 40% of Chicanos are considered functionally illiterate. In Los Angeles, only an estimated 25% can speak English fluently. Chicano children in some rural areas are still punished for speaking Spanish in school. Only this year, Chicano students...
...used to come to the dressing room and ask everybody probing questions about the game. When I lived near Yankee Stadium, I used to have people over after the game, maybe a dozen players, and Nixon would come. He didn't ask dumb questions." Sports stars are frequent guests at the White House; Arnold Palmer, Bart Starr and Billy Casper dropped by recently...
...implications for civilian life are just beginning to be explored, but military research into the consequences of separation may eventually shed some light on the marital problems of hard-pressed executives who work evenings and weekends and jet away on frequent business trips. Such "corporate bigamists," torn by their conflicting dedications to wife and job, have become an increasing concern of management consultants and psychiatrists...
...Court agreed, although Justice Hugo Black, in an angry dissent, called the voiding of Wisconsin's law a "plain judicial usurpation of state legislative power." - In 1964, WGCB, a radio station in Red Lion, Pa., broadcast a right-wing preacher's attack on Fred J. Cook, a frequent contributor to the liberal weekly magazine, The Nation. When Cook's request for a chance to reply was refused, he took his case to the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC ordered the station to give Cook a turn at the mike, went on to point out that under...
...Shakespeare's ultimately tamed volcano, Haydee is to the dance what Maria Callas has been to opera. She is an artist incapable of a dull or empty gesture, able to communicate a state of mind through an impressive range of movement or even by standing still. Her frequent partner is California-born Richard Cragun, 24, a bravura but seemingly effortless soloist who within a very few years may be the world's finest male dancer...