Word: hickey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bent over his drafting board at an Army Engineers' installation in Alexandria, Va., Private Norman L. Hickey, 27, felt a sudden tightening around his chest -"as though someone had been screwing down a metal band around it, and I was shaking like a leaf." He worked on. Next day, too nauseated to eat, Hickey felt the tightness return. He gave up, went on sick call. Doctors, unable to decide what ailed him, even sent him to a fever isolation ward before he ended up in the cardiac clinic of Walter Reed Army Hospital. Because his case was so tricky...
Just as gratifying to St. Louis School Superintendent Philip J. Hickey was the fact that the gifted students vastly accelerated their social development (thus seeming to refute the theory that isolation of the intellectually gifted tends, to stunt their social growth). With a new batch of gifted sixth-graders starting the program this fall and last year's special sixth-graders moving on to special "seventh"-grade classes, nine new classrooms are being set aside for advanced work. Next fall a third set of nine classrooms will be added to carry the program on through the junior-high-school...
Halting the Loss. Superintendent Hickey freely acknowledges that the program is still experimental and subject to substantial revision. St. Louis has not yet determined what to do with its gifted sixth-graders when they reach high school. Even the curriculum is likely to be revised as the program's administrators gain more experience. But to Hickey and the others working with him, the important fact is that a start has been made toward halting the loss of brainpower which St. Louis, in common with other, cities, has suffered through failure to detect top talent...
...three of his dummies) as it does contestants (three married couples). The show is filmed-and filmed badly. Large blisters of light kept glaring on and off during the 30 minutes, seemingly timed to the excessive applause of the well-trained studio audience. The winning contestants: Robert and Roberta Hickey, parents of eleven children, who won $100 a week for a year when Roberta proved able to think of more states ending in "a" than either of her rivals. This week the Hickeys will be given the chance of competing for another...
Alchemist. In Orlando, Fla., facing a forgery charge for boosting a check, Clarence Hickey, 25, pleaded magic, explained that a fortune teller had sprinkled a pile of white powder on the check which instantly increased its worth from...