Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...IVAN SASSOON...
...less an issue in its way is that posed by Arthur S. Trace Jr.'s What Ivan Knows That Johnny Doesn't (Random House; $3.95), a chilling comparison of Russian and U.S. textbooks that pegs the vocabulary of Ivan's typical first-grade reader at 2,000 words and Johnny's at 300, owing to the U.S. mystique of "vocabulary control." Equally indignant about U.S. reading deficiencies is Charles C. Walcutt's Tomorrow's Illiterates (Atlantic-Little, Brown; $3.95), and it has the added virtue of describing key reading reforms throughout the country. Critics...
...shooting started after a week of growing tension. The brutal beatings of Acting U.N. Katanga Chief George Ivan Smith and Special Adviser Brian Urquhart (TIME, Dec. 8) had already left the U.N. soldiers tense, angry, and spoiling for a fight. Many of Tshombe's troops, whipped up by the strident anti-U.N. propaganda of Radio Katanga, were drinking heavily and walking through town with guns at the ready. Something had to happen; it did, one afternoon at the main airport. When brawling Katangese soldiers molested airport workers, Indian soldiers arrested 32 of them in a flurry of gunfire...
...Dodd, U.N. and diplomatic guests, and the best of Elisabethville society. When a sedan with U.N. license plates drove up, the soldiers were sure some kind of plot was being hatched. Quickly they surrounded the car, shouting and gesticulating wildly at the two startled occupants. Australian-born George Ivan Smith, acting U.N. chief in Katanga, and Brian Urquhart, a Briton transferred to the Congo from U.N. Manhattan headquarters only a few days before...
Comparable to Ivan's anatomy, my third grader's last science exam dealt with mollusks, amphibia and reptiles. Recently she wrote and illustrated a five-part paper-the first part, "The Creation," Ivan will never have...