Word: lives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...segregation of another kind. In 14 major cities, from Boston to Los Angeles, it blights 25% to 35% of 3,200,000 children in public schools. Worried schoolmen call it "the problem of the culturally handicapped." They mean the mental ghettos in which thousands of dispirited Negro children live because no one-teachers or parents-can stir them to care...
...stays with a problem like a dog on a bone, until he gets the job done." By 1952 Sam Shepard, a district director of education, headed 22 of the city's 130 still segregated grade schools. His charges: 13,000 students (only 1,000 of them whites) who live in the squalid middle of the city's sleaziest neighborhoods...
...disk jockeys' convention was not all payola. The sponsoring (Omaha-based ) Storz radio chain had, after all, slipped the word "seminar" into the official title. The jocks heard lectures on such subjects as "News Should Be New," "Do We Live and Die By Ratings?" (answer: yes), "Are Live Radio Commercials Dead?" (no, they just sound that...
...Rank and File marked another reversal: Playwright Serling's departure from live TV drama. At 34 the author of more than 100 TV plays, he has been one of the most voluble defenders of the serious playwright's place in TV. But disillusioned Writer Serling announced last week that next season his world belongs to the series, has signed on to write a weekly half-hour science-fiction show called The Twilight Zone...
former Princeton football player ('52) and writer: "They have missed a fundamental aspect of American life-work." Most of the U.S. artists are drawn to Rome because it is cheaper to live there. Their down-to-earth approach is reflected in their art: painting includes recognizable images, sculpture often mirrors the human form, prose and poetry tend to be lucid, coherent and direct. Few have qualms about accepting commercial commissions. Cracked one sculptor: "For a thousand dollars I'll do a head of grandma -guaranteed to look just like grandma!" Wives for Models. Typical of Rome...