Word: hills
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Tackling the U.S. teacher shortage, Yale last week announced the results of a three-year project directed by Yale Education Professor Emeritus Clyde M. Hill. Eight Connecticut housewives (aged 30 to 45) attended special classes at the University of Bridgeport, taught part time in the public schools of Fairfield. All the women got higher academic scores than the norm for college girls, compared favorably with new college graduates. All taught better for having broader life experience than the average young teacher. Yale's total training cost per teacher: $750, much less than for younger student teachers. With five...
...Britain's Parliament the Economist is read and followed so widely that it is sometimes called "the alternative government." In the U.S. it is quoted more often in the press than any other foreign publication. It is considered required reading on Wall Street and Capitol Hill; the Central Intelligence Agency alone gets 200 air-expressed copies weekly. Few statesmen pass up Economist invitations to lunch in the Honky-Tonk, the staff's irreverent name for the restaurant in the basement of the Economist's London headquarters on Ryder Street...
...Scratch. In Alma, Ga., while eloquently orating at a Veterans Day celebration, Lieut. Governor Garland T. Byrd discovered that he was standing in the middle of an ant hill, and that thousands of ants were crawling up his trousers...
They are Jerome C. Axelrod '63, of Wigglesworth Hall and Houston, Tex.; Robert L. Beal '63, of Matthews Hall and Chestnut Hill; Daniel Del Solar '63, of Mower Hall and Santa Monica, Cal.; Gary M. Grikscheit '63, of Straus Hall and Birmingham; William C. Hodge '63, of Wigglesworth Hall and Springfield, Ohio;; Alfred J. Kahn '63, of Wigglesworth Hall and Houston, Tex.; Stephen A. Keese '63, of Stoughton Hall and Chattanooga, Tenn.; Phillip L. Stotter '63, of Greenough Hall and South River, N.J.; David W. Walker '63, of Thayer Hall and Canaan, N.Y.; and Ronald H. Winston '63, of Matthews...
...ownership. But the Aussie who invests in a domestic company can make handsome profits on his own. In a land that is turning out its own diesel engines, railroad cars, jet aircraft and transistor radios, stocks are an investor's dream. Ansett Transport Industries, Clyde Industries (engineering), Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd. (steel) are all up 50% in a year, while Colonial Sugar Refining has jumped 70% and Rothmans Ltd. (cigarettes) a whacking...