Word: grading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that as they grow older, the difference between the mental age of a bright child and that of a dull child becomes increasingly greater. In other words, the range of mental ages that you find in a typical American high school is far greater than is found on the grade school level. To take extreme measures like those which England has adopted to reduce the secondary-school enrollment would, of course, not be applicable here, because public opinion is too solidly entrenched in the belief that every child has the right and the capacity to finish high school. It would...
Hannie is modest about his chances of making the grade in U.S. baseball: "I don't know if I would accept an offer, because I know I wouldn't get one." He will be happy "just to learn," then go back to Amsterdam, where his brother Charles, an O.V.V.O. shortstop, vill take care of a good percentage of the batters that Hannie does not strike out. Charles is O.V.V.O.'s relief pitcher, but the title is strictly honorary. In 150 games over eight years, Hannie has never yet been relieved...
...Married. Grade Fields, 54, durable British music-hall comedienne, who deliberately "tampered with the radio" because she liked the looks of the repairman; and Rumanian-born Abraham Boris Alperovici, 48, the radio repairman; she for the third time, he for the first; in Santo Stefano Church, near Gracie's Isle of Capri villa...
Today a candidate from the outer reaches of British society may make the grade, but not unless he graduates fairly well (a "second class") from a university. Competitive exams usually knock out half the several hundred applicants. The survivors move on to a large old house on London's Chesham Place, once the Czarist Russian embassy, for a harrowing two-day grilling. There, in groups of six, the candidates show their paces before a government official, a psychologist and perhaps a university don. Each is required to make a speech, write a memorandum, chairman a mock committee meeting...
...Germany. French High Commissioner Gilbert Grandval, an ardent Gaullist, was not content with tying the Saar to the French economy, with which it has a natural industrial affinity. He was also determined to de-Germanize the Saar's inhabitants. Children of German-speaking parents must study French in grade school. The franc is the medium of exchange. French occupation authorities also outlawed the Saar's pro-German Democratic Party, censored German newspapers, expelled Catholic priests who opposed the separation of the Saar from the German bishopric of Trier. So long as West Germany itself was destitute, Saarlanders cynically...