Word: grading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Congress temporarily packing and curbed most political activities. Denied outlets for protest, some dissidents turned to terrorist acts ranging from bombing and bank robbery to kidnaping and murder. With estimates of the number of terrorists running as high as 10,000, those responsible for combating the threat-mostly junior-grade policemen and military men-apparently resorted increasingly to torture. As in a number of other Latin American countries, the result has been a savage cycle of terrorism and repression...
N.E.A. field studies in Mississippi and Louisiana turned up some appalling cases. Until last summer, Fred McCoy was principal of the all-black Midway Elementary School in Natalbany, La. Integration closed his school, and he was assigned to teach a fourth-grade class at a formerly all-white school-in the morning. In the afternoon, he was expected to do janitor's chores in the school latrines. At least McCoy kept busy. A black former principal in Louisiana has been given a desk to sit at but no title or duties that he has been able to determine...
...teacher assistants, community liaison trainees and the like. Of last year's 100 freshmen, only 16 dropped out, mostly for lack of adequate day care for their children. Typical of those determined to graduate is Evalyn Shaw, a black woman who dropped out of school after the ninth grade and is now over 50. As a C.H.S. sophomore, Mrs. Shaw helps spur high school students toward college and personally hopes to become "the Grandma Moses of education...
Raising the Dividends. At present, a $20,000 portfolio of high-grade stocks generally pays about $1,000 a year, or 5% in dividends. But Kelsonian economics calls for a return of at least 20%, or $4,000 a year-a level that Kelso figures could take 5,000,000 families off the welfare rolls in five years. To increase the dividend payout, Kelso would gradually abolish corporate income taxes and require companies to distribute all of their earnings to stockholders. Kelso maintains that the Government's revenue loss would be temporary and bearable. One reason is that rising...
...remembered that I had read in school that communism is where everyone has to wear the same thing and everyone has to eat the same thing. All that I knew about revolution was from the two pictures in my eleventh grade history textbook: the first of a vicious, almost horned Robespierre squeezing the blood from a human heart into a cup, and the second of an elegant, repentant, white-haired Louis XVI, praying before the guillotine. I also remembered the "World" section of the Sun Diego Union-Evening Tribune from one Sunday in 1957, when I was eight...