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Documentation of Catholic-school quality came from one survey of students at 192 elementary schools, who were tested on such basic skills as reading and arithmetic. Except for an unexplained lag in second grade, the students scored well above the national averages. Similarly, seniors in 41 Catholic high schools did better, as a group, in language, social studies, math and science than the national norm...
...thinking, its personal relations, its social organization. Moreover, though technological change can and does profoundly affect societies, modernization is mostly confined to the big cities, particularly in Asia, Africa and Latin America, where the heartlands remain relatively untouched by progress. Even in the cities, there is a distinct time lag; some of the more jarring aspects of American culture continue to flourish abroad even while they are on the decline in the U.S., where the general level of sophistication is steadily rising...
Whatever their individual merits, all general guidebooks to Europe share one important fault: they lag far behind in reflecting the major tourist trends. One case in point is an almost generalized failure to report that the Iron Curtain countries have begun to welcome tourists-and are beginning to swing. Hungarian night life and restaurants are just about as gay as they were in the good old days. Bulgaria is plugging a two-week stay on the sunny Black Sea coast for $91, including air fare from Vienna. Another popular Vienna excursion: down the Danube by hydrofoil for a weekend...
...defy verbal cliches. To the majority, pot manifests itself through dizzy spells and then painful awakenings; it made all of them thirsty and many nauseous. In addition there is an intense distortion of the sense of time which can be seen by extrordinary gaps in "high" convesations. The time lag does not, however, interrupt the continuity of thought...
...statistical signs and symbols of a serious inflationary spiral continue to mount. Industrial production figures for January indicate that U.S. plants are operating at near-capacity-meaning that soon they may not be able to produce enough goods to meet demand. In steel, the time lag between orders and delivery is still lengthening, and some mills are beginning to allocate output even among steady customers. According to the Commerce Department, manufacturing inventories went up sharply in December, the latest month on which figures have been compiled; this would presumably mean that businessmen are stockpiling against the threat of inflation...