Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little empires, the little feudalisms in certain sectors of higher education and research have shown their senility." Faure concedes the validity of student complaints that the examination system is obsolete and arbitrary and that the facilities are inadequate and overcrowded. He is pushing for exams that would be more frequent but more fair, based on testing working knowledge of a subject rather than on rote memorization. He also has promised to provide space for 20,000 new students in Paris this fall...
...postmen pick up the mail, sort it at central clearinghouses, truck it to delivery routes. Then white-uniformed, bonded carriers trudge to each house, put the mail in plastic bags, which are hung on doorknobs (nobody but a U.S. postman is allowed to place anything in mailboxes). Supervisors conduct frequent checks to make sure that carriers do not resort to dumping circulars in convenient garbage cans -a constant temptation for carriers who get paid on the basis of how much they deliver...
...about 75% of the schools polled still have policies that permit such punishment. Ten percent of the reported cases of pupils being struck occurred despite regulations prohibiting physical punishment. Striking was most common in the public schools, the early primary grades and in the Southern states, and was least frequent in suburban schools. A child is four times more likely to be hit by a male teacher than by a woman. Defending their heavy-handed discipline, 63% of the teachers said that they favored school-board policies permitting them to strike youngsters anywhere except on the head. "Physical punishment," said...
...Angeles Times and other critics have assailed the mayor's frequent and protracted absences from the city-trips that have apparently helped boost trade but have kept him away too long from the critical problems in his own backyard. Yorty's most embarrassing gaffe, faithfully recorded on nationwide TV, was his gratuitous recital of possible evidence against Sirhan Sirhan. accused assassin of Robert Kennedy...
...attended: Cleveland Mayor Carl B. Stokes, Rafer Johnson, Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr., among others. The accompanying story was a perceptive account of Bobby's growth as a civil rights leader. In a previous issue, U.S. Senators got their pictures in the magazine only because they happen to frequent the Senate restaurant presided over by a Negro maitre d'hotel, Robert Parker Jr. Said the story: "Even for Senator Richard Russell (D., Ga.), who is not noted for his high esteem for Negroes, 'there is only one maitre d' in the U.S.-Parker...