Word: less
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major impediment to the Mexican American is his Spanish language, because it holds him back in U.S. schools. Mexican Americans average eight years of schooling, two years less than Negroes and a full four years less than whites. Often they are forced to learn English from scratch in the first grade, and the frequent result is that they become not bilingual but nearly nonlingual. In Texas, 40% of Chicanos are considered functionally illiterate. In Los Angeles, only an estimated 25% can speak English fluently. Chicano children in some rural areas are still punished for speaking Spanish in school. Only this...
...first isolated the killer. The substance, they said, was a bug-paralyzing insecticide called endosulvan and marketed as Thiodan. A sulfurous acid ester, endosulvan is described by its manufacturers, the Hochst chemical works just west of Frankfurt, as harmless to warm-blooded animals, including humans, even though one microgram (less than one three-millionth of an ounce) in a quart of water is enough to kill coldblooded fish...
Main Front. The fedayeen, however, are of less concern to Israel than the standing threat from Egypt. Last week, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan warned that Egypt and Syria were stepping up their war efforts, and another round of the war "can happen," perhaps this year. "The Egyptian front is the main one," he added. "It won't start anywhere else...
...contemporary film. In the U.S., movies are known by their titles or their stars. Overseas, the director is becoming the star. There may always be the Catherine Deneuves and Marcello Mastroiannis who are billed above the titles of their films. But increasingly the actor in Europe has become less important than the man who calls the shots. When France's Jean-Luc Godard makes a film, the title is virtually irrelevant. Satyricon is the official name of a forthcoming fantasy about the sexual excesses of ancient Rome, but the knowing audience may be attracted more by the movie...
...Involved. Deeply committed to their demanding work, few engineers vote or participate in politics or community projects. "They think they don't really live here, and so they tend not to get involved," explains Psychiatrist Podnos. About 14% of Brevard County residents have been there less than a year, and only 4.5% expect to stay for more than five years. The Cape is a society of "ten-percenters"-men who move from one space contractor to another seeking a 10% pay increase. Their insecurities are heightened by shifts in space policy. With the Apollo program drawing...