Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Business section, with a staff of five researchers who go out on interviews, gather background material for writers, run down elusive figures and check facts. As it happens, Researcher Fremd's job at TIME is somewhat different from the career she had originally planned. In the seventh grade at Larchmont, N.Y. she decided to become a police reporter. She joined TIME in 1946 after editorial and production jobs on industrial trade magazines. By then her interests had veered from crime to finance, and she was hired as a researcher for the Business section. Says she: "I remember my first...
Holly Jane Hyde, daughter of a Rhode Island chicken and apple farmer, had been a lively youngster and, with her brilliant coppery hair, was as bright as a new penny. But when, at seven, Holly went into second grade, she had trouble with reading. Then Holly's mother noticed that sometimes she seemed not to understand what was said to her; she gazed vacantly into space and occasionally picked up her luncheon sandwich and tossed it across the room for no evident reason...
...difference to Hewitt, now 30, and neither do efforts to retrain him. He can remember nothing of the recent past, but "his recall of the ancient material learned during his youth is phenomenal." He can sing ballads popular 20 years ago, recite the Gettysburg Address, play checkers and do grade-school arithmetic. He can name the first but not the present President of the U.S. Hewitt's overall I.Q. has gone up from 52 after the injury to 71, but nearly all the gain is from improvement in his control of movements and using his sense of sight...
...reached treacherous Scorpion's Pass, 60 miles south of Beersheba, and started up the grade like a clumsy beetle. As it neared a stone monument, erected to honor the Jews who fell in 1948 to win the Negeb, it was struck by a volley of gunfire. Ephraim Fuerstenberg, the driver, slumped dead; the bus rolled to a stop. Four passengers raced wildly through the door; a second burst spat from a hillock, and they fell lifeless onto the bleached clay. A bottle of cologne broke in the pocket of Hanna Kirshenbaum, 29, mother of three, and mingled the scent...
...GRADE IRON ores in the South may soon find a market...