Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROBERT T. DOUVILLE Great Lakes, Ill...
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...sound and substantial reasons. Mrs. Lundberg may preserve good three-R education, and Mrs. McKenney may prove that a one-room school can adopt new trends. But the bulk of such schools, says Robert Isenberg of the N.E.A.'s rural-education department, "tend to be rather sorry, ill-equipped places." Buildings are as much as 100 years old. Most of the teachers have had less than four years of college training...
Perhaps because of the city's notorious ill winds, Chicago architects have long kept its structures to lowly heights of 500 and 600 ft. while New York handily took the first eight places in the world's skyscrapers sweepstakes. But now Chicago has entered the race. Last week the John Hancock Insurance Co. announced plans to build a 100-story, 1,100-ft. skyscraper that, when completed in 1968, will be the world's second tallest building,* topped only by Manhattan's 1,250-ft. Empire State Building...
Died. Dr. Gordon Stifler Seagrave, 68, the indomitable Burma surgeon who, starting in 1922, built up a 250-bed hospital in the wild northern hill country near China, there supervising the treatment of some 17,000 patients yearly despite his own ill health (TB, dysentery, bubonic plague, beriberi) and a shoestring $75,000 annual budget, part of which came from his best-selling books (Burma Surgeon, Burma Surgeon Returns); of a heart attack; in Namhkam, Burma...