Word: meritable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...audience, making it nearly impossible to pick one song over another to hum after the show. If you prefer catchy melodies, they are there; if you want the "Some Enchanted Evening" type, they are there too. Although many of the songs could reach the Hit Parade on their own merit, each is smoothly slipped into the stage antics of the Cannery Row characters, taken from Steinbeck's novel, Sweet Thursday...
...Forgoing fancy hotels in favor of staying with a longtime Alsatian friend who runs a teashop, Nobel Peace Prize-winner Schweitzer one day drew on a shabby, dark overcoat, headed for Buckingham Palace. There Queen Elizabeth II invested him with the insigne of the exclusive (24 members) Order of Merit. As a non-Briton, Dr. Schweitzer became the order's second living honorary member (the other: Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...Alarmed by the fact that U.S. colleges seem to be turning out only about half as many high school science and mathematics teachers as they did in 1950, Shell Oil Co. announced that it was starting a program called the "Shell Merit Fellowships for High School Science and Mathematics Teachers." Each year 60 talented teachers will be packed off, all expenses paid, for summer seminars at Cornell or Stanford. To make up for lost summer earnings, Shell is also shelling out a cash bonus: $500 for each fellow...
Besides the basic issue of continuing CCA control, this year's election centers, quitely, on the question of merit or politics in the appointment of teachers. When four CCA candidates took office two years ago, famous "Family Night" was only one year in the past; four "independents" had just pushed through school appointments for four job-hungry relatives, and Cambridge was angry. In the past two years, by contrast, the School Committee has restored competitive examinations for all appointments and promotions...
...merit system and other accomplishments--like the recruitment of many new teachers and the building of new school plants--are difficult to change into good slogans. But good candidates can often compensate for a lack of good slogans, and the CCA slate this year contains six candidates worthy of election...