Word: giving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students. The new schools (about 90 so far) remodeled on a familiar U.S. pattern: the big, inclusive high school. They have headaches also familiar to Americans, including Teddy boys who carry flick knives to class, smash windows, abuse masters. But they do solve the basic problem: how to give late starters a chance to switch from one track to another. Says Headmaster George Rogers of London's Walworth Secondary School: "This year I shall have a sixth form of 20 students all studying for certificates at university-entrance levels. Not bad for eleven-plus failures...
Britain's famed public schools are flourishing as before. The class-conscious Englishman still feels compelled to give his children a distinctive U (upper-class) accent, recoils in horror from the non-U patois prevalent in many state schools. Yet public schools are also so costly ($1,200 yearly at Harrow) that many U parents are switching over to state schools, particularly at the primary level. At one brand-new school near London's fashionable South Kensington, the curb is lined with Bentleys, Jaguars and nannies when classes let out each afternoon. Says one U mother...
Playwright John Osborne has formed his own film company to give Jimmy an audience even wider than those who heard him storm through 252 performances in London, another 408 on Broadway. But an audience is not what Jimmy needs-he needs a doctor, for he looks back not so much in anger as in madness...
...steelworkers accepted, but the steel companies turned down, an offer by President Eisenhower to appoint a non-Government fact-finding committee. To aid workers, the U.A.W. sent $1,000,000, and at the biennial A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention in San Francisco the federation urged its 13 million members to give an hour's pay each month to aid the striking steelworkers. If all workers contributed, the strike fund would be an estimated $1,000,000 a day, largest in labor history...
...Three's compact cars. Styled with a sports-car slope, the Valiant seats six, gets 30 miles per gallon, has a top speed of 100 m.p.h. Among its features: a new six-cylinder engine mounted at a 30° angle, instead of straight, to give the car a lower center of gravity, and an alternator* instead of a direct-current generator. Chief advantages over a DC generator: more electrical energy at idling and low speeds, longer battery life. Initially, the Valiant (priced at about $2,000 plus taxes, but no extras) will be offered in a four-door sedan...