Word: homework
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems to be the current average, but some companies go as high as 17. For the most part, today's board members are expected to work at their task; each directorship costs a man at least one day's time a month, not counting several hours of homework. Communications between the directors and corporate officers, once haphazard, have been improved to the extent that many executives spend most of their time at the job of pulling together information for the directors. And whereas boards used to be heavily weighted with production men, today's emphasis on marketing...
...drifters, naturally enough, began to drift. While the first group did its homework and sang Bob Dylan songs, the drifters checked out the rough black bars, picked up chicks, and, so as far as the other customers were concerned, slipped off into an old Southern tradition...
Fitting in one's painting or sculpting among courses, homework and a reasonable amount of sleep offers further difficulties but it seldom proves impossible. One student sculptor remarked that "anyone who really wants to can make time for his work. It may mean missing the football game on Saturday and not going to the movies, but it can be done. The people who can't do it are the ones who like to just sit around and say 'I'm an artist but I don't have the time to do anything.' Still, for someone who lives in a house...
...fast black Humber, making dozens of plain-spoken speeches on topics ranging from winter grain prices to East-West relations. Wearing a battered tweed jacket and a jauntily angled checked-cloth cap, he fielded involved local questions with a barrage of statistics that showed he had done his homework in the hillside cottage near Comrie that became the official seat of government during the campaign. When heckling stirred an uproar in the crowd he was addressing at Aberfeldy, the Prime Minister calmly sat down in mid-speech, refusing to let party stewards throw out the interrupters. Said he: "They...
...Tests. Students at the school do not have to fuss with the pin-pricking routines of tests and homework. There are no credits and no grades. Says Program Director Douglas Carter, 33: "This type of student will dig into things for himself." Some noted guest lecturers will spur the digging. Last week Laura Fermi, widow of Atomic Physicist Enrico Fermi, began lecturing on science for ten days. She will be followed by Novelist Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn), Playwright Paul Green and Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges. A symphony orchestra, string ensemble, ballet and drama groups are already...