Word: herman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THIS BEAR!, by Bernice Myers (Four Winds Press; $3.50). Dressed in his furry hat and coat, little Herman goes off to visit his Aunt Gert. He looks just like a bear, and that is just what a passing bear thinks he is. Herman has a terrible time trying to persuade the bears that he is really a boy. He sings and dances and ties his shoelaces, but Papa Bear only says, "See what happens when a bear has a chance to go to the big city and learn a trade...
...student opinions ought to be incorporated into promotion procedures if good teaching is ever to get its just rewards. As it is now, teaching is judged mainly by grapevine gossip. "I have no idea how well my associates teach-I've never seen them," concedes Chicago Humanities Professor Herman Sinaiko. A large university simply could not function, however, if professors were subject to the total-and predictably whimsical-power of students to hire and fire them...
...Florida, U.S. Rep. Edward Gurney won the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, rolling to a landslide victory over Herman Goldner, former mayor of St. Petersburg. Gurney is an arch-conservative...
...that's between Harmony Love Valley, not far from the Brushy Mountains - believe in being right nice to outsiders. So, when thousands of visitors stream into town on Easter weekend for the annual Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, the residents go all out to accommodate them. Farmer Herman Speece lets herds of autos crowd the cows off his pasture. The boys at the firehouse move the truck out so that people who find it too cold in their cars or tents can spend the night on the firehouse floor. The ladies of the P.T.A. serve home-cooked country...
Required by the city government to attend, some Houston police grumbled, read paperbacks or worked crossword puzzles during initial sessions. At the time, Police Chief Herman Short, a tough traditionalist, helped little with snide remarks about "slobbering sociologists." But as the meetings progressed, he apologized for the slur, and even uncooperative officers began venting their feelings. At one meeting a veteran police sergeant blurted, "I've hated niggers all my life, and every time I see a car with a Texas Southern University* sticker on it I'm going to harass the hell out of that driver...