Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...U.S.S.R. (compared with only 35,000 in the U.S.), and 36 of the world's 82 grand masters are Soviets (compared with 13 in Yugoslavia, eleven in the U.S., six in Argentina and six in Hungary).* Russian youths, many of whom study the game as a standard course at grade school level, discuss the Nimzo-Indian defense the way U.S. kids talk about the Dallas Cowboys' front four. So many Soviet citizens play the game, in fact, that one chess writer contends the reason that service in Russian restaurants is so bad is because "the cooks are forever having...
...self-effacing service in government bureaucracies. Last week the mold was shattered when the Japanese Diet in a special session elected International Trade and Industry Minister Kakuei Tanaka, 54, the country's eleventh Premier since 1945. A muscular, self-made millionaire (construction, real estate) who has only a grade-school education, Tanaka takes charge of the world's third strongest economy with no reluctance whatsoever in promising "powerful leadership...
...North Hennepin, where 80% of the "senior" students had never gone beyond the eighth grade, there is still a certain ambiguity about the purpose of education for the elderly. Some of the new applicants have asked for such prospective courses as "Sex over 65" and "The Psychology of Dying," but others prefer simpler offerings like "Film Time: the Oldies but Goodies." Explains Mrs. Harriet Heesen, who has taken creative writing and whose grandson is enrolled at the same college: "I'm just doing what I enjoy. If I learn along the way, fine, but I'm going...
...real estate man, Hunter grew up to become briefly a high school English teacher. His girl students were so dazzled by his golden-haired good looks that they sent his picture to a Hollywood movie agent. Improbable as it sounds, a contract resulted, and Hunter starred in 26 B-grade flicks, each one, he recalls, "as forgettable as the next, mostly because I was a horrible actor...
...whole is directed by Josh Rubins in a junior-grade imitation of cheapjack Broadway commercial. His actors bounce over furniture and up the stairs whenever possible; the rest of their movements are entrances ad exits...