Word: kalamazoo
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...missing commonplaces into them. Working under near-laboratory conditions, New York City Psychologist Martin Deutsch pioneered teaching concepts for preschoolers; now Ford Foundation-sponsored projects are under way in Oakland, New Haven, New York, Boston, and eastern Pennsylvania. The U.S. Office of Education is backing an experiment in Kalamazoo, Mich., and the Johnson Foundation has financed a program in Racine, Wis. Farthest along of all is Baltimore's "Early School Admissions Project," supported by the city and a $155,000 Ford grant...
...University of Oregon and Ohio University finished second and third behind the champion Western Michigan Broncos. The title was the first national championship in any sport ever won by a team from the Kalamazoo school...
...KALAMAZOO COLLEGE...
Violet Stems. Schippers was born in Kalamazoo, Mich., but he has no taste for the sticks anymore. He is building a house on Corfu and keeps apartments in Rome and New York and, happily established as a princely bachelor, he avoids all thought of a permanent conductorship somewhere. When he first led an orchestra, he says, his legs "trembled like violet stems," but success has blessed him with massive assurance. Now, in eager pursuit of a future he scarcely has reason to doubt, he says that "it's a marvelous feeling to know that you know more...
...subject is Morris Markin, who learned how to keep his mouth shut during the taxi wars in Chicago in the lurid 1920s. For 31 weeks, Chicago Correspondent Miriam Rumwell got the run-around when she tried to reach him. Finally she turned up at his Checker cab factory in Kalamazoo, was told by David Markin that he didn't know his father's whereabouts. But after a two-hour conversation, in which she apparently passed some kind of test, David asked, "Would you like to see my father?" Reports Miss Rumwell: "We went into a room next door...