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...from Betty Grable's legs, John Barrymore's profile, Shirley Temple's seven-year-old scrawl ("Love to the World") and his ex-Wife Ava Gardner's feet, Singer Frank Sinatra, 49, knelt, did the old Hollywood salaam and planted his palms in the wet concrete beside the rococo Grauman's Chinese Theater. Then Frank struck a Jolsonesque pose for Daughters Nancy and Tina and about 3,000 faithful who turned up for the messy rites, some of them dangling from the limbs of trees...
...scrutinize the nation's schooling. Eisenhower's conference was dominated by public-school administrators, school-board representatives, and such vested interests as the National Education Association. More in evidence at the Johnson meeting was a new breed of outside innovators, such as Carnegie Corp. President John Gardner who served as chairman; U.S. Education Commissioner Francis Keppel, who does not even hold a graduate degree; and a host of university-oriented reformers, ranging from James B. Conant to President John H. Fischer of Columbia University's Teachers College...
Panel members eagerly heeded the admonition of Chairman Gardner that they were there "not to be lectured at but to be heard." The topic that stirred the conference's loudest and sharpest clash was the notion that federal grants may be followed by federal testing to assess educational results. Warned Commissioner Keppel: "The nation's taxpayers and their representatives in Congress will want to know-and have every right to know-whether that investment is paying off." John I. Goodlad, director of U.C.L.A.'s University Elementary School, proposed a highly selective sample testing of a representative...
...press that the nation's economic picture is "excellent." Next day, Commerce Secretary John Connor told the National Press Club: "Business is great, and it's going to get even better." At the same time, speaking in Manhattan to the American Marketing Association, Chief Presidential Economist Gardner Ackley forecast that "continued solid advance is still ahead of us through 1965 and into...
Economists are divided as to whether housing as a whole is about to rebound. Chairman Gardner Ackley of the Coun cil of Economic Advisors forecasts that it will recover this year to something close to the 1964 level of 1,584,000 units. many other experts lean toward the view of James C. Downs Jr., chair man of Chicago's Real Estate Research Corp.: "The market is still oversupplied, and I foresee no dramatic improve ment." One encouraging sign: April con tracts for residential construction, a ba rometer of work to come hit a record $2.1 billin...