Word: gap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...month-long gap between Harvard's 14-week winter sports season and the brief 7-week spring fling is adequately filled each year by championship tournaments. But seldom has a post-season weekend been as interesting to Boston and Harvard fans as the one just passed...
Critical Index. The main testing was done among 13-year-olds, since this is the age at which the twelve nations still have most of their children in academic schools (after this age, some channel many of their students into vocational training). The results show a startling gap between Japan and the U.S. Japan placed 76% of its 13-year-olds in the upper half of international testing, compared with 43% in the U.S. A strong 31% of the Japanese ranked in the upper tenth percentile, compared with only 4% of the Americans. The top tenth, claim the researchers...
Less Hypocrisy. Along with this shift came the fresh realization that audiences and their attitudes have changed. They are younger and they carry more intellectual clout. Says Karel Reisz, who directed Morgan!: "The literacy gap between the people who are making films and those who are seeing them has narrowed." The kids still flip for spoof spectaculars like Goldfinger, but they just don't believe in 40-acre bathrooms and proscenium-size smiles. "The grand image no longer awes the spectator," says Director Claud Lelouch (Un Homme et Une Femme). "He recognizes a smooth but forced décor and performance...
...labor leaders also disagree vehemently over the role of the American labor movement in international affairs. Reuther believes that unions ought to help bridge the gap between nations, while Meany refuses even to talk to Communist labor groups. Last year the International Labor Organization (an agency of the U.N.) elected Leon Chain, a Pole, president. The American delegation headed by Randy Faupl, a close friend of Meany's, walked out of the meeting. Reuther sought to condemn the walk-out at the next executive council meeting but was overruled by a near unanimous vote. A source reports that at this...
Narrowing Salary Gap...