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After ten years of teaching "the supposedly mentally retarded" in Salisbury schools, Mrs. Koontz concludes that "they are not mentally retarded. They have all the basic needs and urgings of other kids, but lack the perception and skills of others because they've been ne- glected. They need understanding and patience." She employed patience of her own in climbing to the top of N.E.A. She headed North Carolina's all-Negro N.E.A. affiliate and N.E.A.'s biggest division, the Association of Classroom Teachers (820,000 members), before her election last year as N.E.A. president. She took office...
...price right? One company that seemed made to measure was well-managed and profitable Diebold, Inc., the nation's largest manufacturer of banking equipment, with 1965 sales of $77 million from safes, depositories, pneumatic tubes, etc. Last week, after Litton Chairman Charles B. Thornton and Diebold President Raymond Koontz agreed on a swap of stock worth about $93 million, Litton announced a "preliminary" deal to absorb Diebold...
Gastronome. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Koontz, whose husband Jesse complained that she chewed snuff, spit it on the walls, and dumped garbage in his bed, won her divorce case. The grounds: he had threatened to chop her head off for putting the wrong milk in his gravy...
...Taylor; other directors for one year, Delmar Leighton, Dean of Freshmen, and Professor Alfred C. Redfield, representing Harvard at Large; Horace S. Ford and Jasper Whiting, representing MIT at Large; Professor Clinton P. Biddle, representing the Harvard Faculty; Professor Kenneth B. Murdock, representing the Harvard Alumni; Henry Elwood Koontz, representing MIT; and Robert S. Playfair, '36; Charles C. Gibson '37 and Francis Keppel '38, representing their respective classes...
...bushy thicket, the four boys climbed a high fence which separated the enclosure from spectators. Alfred ran ahead, knife in hand, climbed over a low wall. Suddenly he screamed. From a thicket in front of him, sprang a huge tiger. It knocked him down, mangled him badly. Melvin Koontz, the zoo cat keeper, ran for his rifle, shot the big yellow beast. Alfred was taken to the hospital where he died several hours later. Zoomen said the tiger was old, had no teeth, or Alfred would have been killed more quickly...