Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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School officials turned out to be politely unenthusiastic over suggestions for improvement. Instead of scolding or subsiding, the parents started their own after-hours school. Results by last week: 17 youngsters aged eight to eleven are going to French class after school, in the public library; half a dozen boys aged six to eight are getting a first look at science in a floating class that rotates from home to home on Saturday mornings; ten boys aged nine to eleven are digesting a stiff science course in a day-nursery classroom...
...Prizewinners. Editor-in-Chief Walter Yust and a staff of 150 keep a continuous watch on the timeliness of its 43,512 articles. Editor Yust, onetime Philadelphia literary critic, defends the Britannica against an array of complaints, including pro-British bias (although the encyclopedia has been U.S.-owned for half a century) and Americanization. A more serious objection sometimes heard: that the work is too scholarly for laymen, too elementary for scholars. But despite criticism, the encyclopedia's swarm of salesmen boast, with much justification: "When you buy the Britannica, you are getting the best there...
...Bartlesville homes for a flat subscription rate of $9.50 a month. But last week Griffing announced that he was giving up; his brand of pay TV has not paid off. Despite a slash in price to $4.95, only 800 of Bartlesville's 28,700 citizens bought-only half the number needed to make cable ends meet. The two main factors that killed telemovies in Bartlesville were competing movies on free TV and the lack of a metering device that would permit set owners to pay only for movies they want to see. Subscribers complained that to get their money...
...Secretariat, has Manhattan had such a big-scale architectural project with a claim to worldwide attention. The project of the 1950s and 1960s, previewed last week, is the $75 million, eleven-acre development for the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in Manhattan's West 60s. With about half the money pledged and most legal roadblocks cleared. Lincoln Center President John D. Rockefeller III took the wraps off plans for a whole complex of structures which he hopes will become "a new American landmark...
...About half the 112 freight shipping conferences operating in U.S. foreign trade try to freeze out the independent shippers by a "dual rate" policy, i.e., rates up to 10% lower than standard for customers who use only conference ships. Isbrandtsen has refused to join such conferences, holding that they are cartels that add to the cost of foreign trade and discourage free competition. In the early 1950s the line captured 30% of cargoes between Japan and the U.S. East Coast (with only 11% of the sailings) by setting prices 10% below those of the Japan-Atlantic & Gulf Freight Conference...