Word: gibson
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Marriage Revealed. Althea Gibson, 38, former top-ranked U.S. women's tennis star (TIME cover, Aug. 26, 1957), now trying it as a pro golfer (33rd on the ladies' money list this year); and William Darben, 40, production coordinator for Bendix Corp.; both for the first time; in Las Vegas...
...size and economy (tourism and shipping). They were thus suited to be among some 30 paired communities used in a two-year study of the quality of grade-school education in the U.S. and Britain. A team of University of Toledo educators, headed by Professor Robert L. Gibson, gave pupils in the paired towns identical achievement tests in English usage, arithmetic and read ing. The findings, first factual evidence on a much debated question, show that U.S. children start slower than British kids but edge ahead...
What gives the U.S. sixth-graders the advantage, Professor Gibson specu- lates, is the "possibly higher level of training of U.S. teachers," combined with more sophisticated audio-visual aids and teaching techniques. Moreover, "students can only learn so much by a certain age," and the head start the British get in reading and writing makes no difference by the time children reach the sixth grade...
...permission. Jonathan Kozal '58 was graduated summa cum laude, held a Rhodes Scholarship, and is author of the novel Fume of Poppies. He was the object of nation-wide attention last spring when he was fired from his post as a fourth-grade teacher in the predominantly-Negro Gibson School in Roxbury. The reason given him was that, along with poems by Frost, Longfellow and Yeats, he had read to his pupils Langston Hughes' "Ballad of the Slumlord," a poem not listed in the Curriculum Guide. Despite the highly vocal efforts of many satisfied parents, he failed to win reinstatement...
...yards from a tennis court, where he started batting tennis balls around as soon as he was able to hold a racket. In 1953, a Lynchburg physician, Walter Johnson, spotted Ashe as a potentially fine player. Dr. Johnson knows his tennis talent. It was he who helped steer Althea Gibson (TIME cover...