Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neighboring towns of Ganado and Edna near Houston. Purpose: to teach 400 words of basic English to 42 five-year-olds, all of whom spoke Spanish only. After 3½ months the "graduates" entered first grade in the town's public schools-where more than half the Mexican-American first-graders had failed the year before-and all passed with flying colors...
...Crosby. Sinatra et al. in some 30 specials. Only apparent problem so far: with one scheduled practically every other night, a "special" may not seem special by season's end. If a new word is needed, the networks can always reach back a few seasons to a quaint, half-forgotten label -"spectacular...
...bewildering plot runs in and out and on and on. An Arab prince, played with unabashed narcissism by John Saxon, pursues an ebony-eyed half-breed (Susan Kohner) through the three tasteless hours and 14 minutes (with intermission), only to lose her in the end. "Some day I'll find you," he trills after her. And towering woodenly over all the power struggles and polyglot types is big Bass-Baritone Howard Keel, who plays "two-fisted and profane" Simon Peter as if he had never left Carousel...
...Scapegoat(DuMaurier-Guinness; M-G-M), based on Daphne du Maurier's bestselling 1957 novel, is a half-serious attempt to articulate on film some notions that fascinated the author: "I wanted to discover, for myself, what happened to a man who was no longer himself. Would he, assuming the identity of another, take on the sins and the burdens and the emotions of the [other] or would his own hidden secret self become released in the other's image and so take charge...
What all this means, said the Chicago Federal Reserve, is that the current price stability may not continue. Drawing a parallel to the 1955 recovery, when prices held steady, the bank suggests that prices may follow a similar pattern in the second half, then show a broad upward movement in 1960, as prices...