Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disadvantaged child achieve economic success. But can it? Not according to Harvard Sociologist Christopher Jencks. In a book to be published next month, Inequality: A Reassessment of the Effect of Family and Schooling in America (Basic Books, Inc.; $12.50), Jencks asserts that schools do almost nothing to close the gap between rich and poor. Moreover, he argues, the quality of the education that public elementary and high school students receive has little effect on their future income...
...Brubecks there are two: Michael, 23, a horse-trainer, and Sister Catherine, 18, whose ambition is to teach underprivileged children.) When the family gets together to perform, as happened recently at the Westbury Music Fair on Long Island, they are billed as Two Generations of Brubeck. But no gap is visible or audible. The Brubecks are in fact one of the best pop music shows on the road. Their program is essentially a series of casual entrances and exits in which each Brubeck has his moment alone in the spotlight, then mixes it up with the others. That includes Poppa...
...employers-now he's out in the open), let me hazard two possible explanations: 1) Mr. Vallée once taped a show of mine on which he did his stand-up comedy act-and we put it on the air. 2) It could just be the Generation Gap. I missed his prime when he was singing through a megaphone. I've only known him since he took to wearing it on his head...
...article, entitled Simply "I.Q." said that a virtually hereditary meritocracy based on intellectual abilities will arise as contemporary political and social goals are realized. Herrnstein believes that our society is evolving distinct classes based on intelligence, and that the I.Q. gap between the upper and the lower classes is increasing. This belief in based on his conviction that intelligence is 80 per cent inheritable...
Skyjacking had never looked easier. Last week, a few hours after daybreak, Frank Markoe Sibley Jr., 43, of Stateline, Nev., pulled a ski mask over his face, slung an M-l rifle across the handlebars of his bicycle, and pedaled through a gap in the fence surrounding the Reno Municipal Airport-the same gap used by another hijacker three months ago. (Reno has applied for federal funds for a new fence, but has yet to receive them.) Ditching his bike, he slipped the rifle under his green field jacket, bulled his way into the line of passengers boarding a United...