Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went out last February, and similar orders were given for college and university students in March. But as of last week, only 31 of China's 840 universities and colleges had resumed classes on even a token level, and the percentage of secondary schools open was just as low. In most cases the schoolrooms to which the students returned bore little resemblance to those they had left. Teaching equipment has been carried off or damaged, walls are hung with soggy, frayed posters and slogans, windows are broken, toilets fouled, and walls are blackened by the winter fires...
...same, most of the nation's current 3,000 juvenile court judges urgently need help in adjusting to change. Despite enormous case loads (the 15-to-17 age group has the highest crime rate), the juvenile judge is often low man in the judicial hierarchy. One-fifth of juvenile-court judges never attended college; about half have no undergraduate degrees. Although the system emphasizes rehabilitation, one-third of the full-time judges have no probation officers or social workers available...
...still unrealistically rigid. "If those fellows would just sit back, have a drink and light up a big black cigar," says a top state Democrat, "maybe they'd be closer to human." To the editors of the News, that sort of statement just proves their point about the low state of morals in America...
Reporting on U.S. Steel last week, Roger Blough calculated that "we have passed the low point. July will be the low month." Most businessmen agree that earnings should improve slightly, but there is bound to be cost cutting and perhaps price increases to help. The Government, they maintain, could help out too. Strong feeling is developing against the President's proposed surtax of 6% or higher on earnings, on the grounds that this is no time to take another bite where the fare has thinned...
Typically, Sears was interested in low-priced pianos; its grands sold for $245 and uprights for $150. Two brothers, William and Henry Heller, whose father was one of Winter's founders, were convinced that the real future lay in high-quality, high-priced models. They bought back the piano interest from Sears in 1941 for a mere $180,000 and merged with Aeolian American Piano Co., long a leader in the quality field. Today prices range from a high of $7,250 for an ebony Mason & Hamlin concert grand to a low of about...