Word: mill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since about one-third of all U.S. children fail to achieve "minimum standards" in first grade, one result is the "relaxed" second grade that goes little beyond repeating first grade. Mayer describes a second-grade class at the Mill School, Whittier, Calif. The kids are writing, "and everybody wants to write," but the bell sounds. " 'It's recess time,' calls the teacher. 'Oh, NO!' cry the youngsters. 'You just put your work down, and don't forget your idea,' Mrs. Mullen says with her endless cheerfulness. 'We'll come right...
...crutch for inadequate teaching. Good teachers take IQs lightly. At Louisville's Manly Junior High School, for example, one girl with an IQ in the "barely educable 80s" is in the top group "because she works hard and gets all A's." Mayer pointedly quotes John Stuart Mill: "A pupil from whom nothing is ever demanded which he cannot do never does...
Chet Jastremski, 20, son of a Toledo steel-mill worker, and a premedical student at Indiana University, became the first breaststroke swimmer ever to navi gate 100 yds. in less than a minute. His time: 59.6 sec., .5 sec. less than the remarkable 1:00.1 he clocked during a trial heat. A stocky, quiet A-student, Jastremski meets Coach James Counsil-man six mornings a week at 7 a.m., practices for an .hour, attends classes until 4 p.m., swims again until 6. "A very dedicated boy," says Counsilman...
...Webb & Knapp Inc.-made practical by cheap power from Bonneville Dam and Stratmat's smelting process-to retrieve iron, copper and zinc from waste copper slag cast off by copper companies. A Webb & Knapp subsidiary, in which Stratmat is to have a minority interest, plans to build a mill in Montana and buy slag from Anaconda Co. at 25? a ton. The slag heap contains iron, copper and zinc ores worth an estimated $1.4 billion. Zeckendorf even hopes to sell his leftover steel slag to go into the concrete of the Government's proposed Libby Dam in Montana...
...Little Mills. Chambers is now working with businessmen in India to build as many as 15 small (150,000 tons a year) steel mills, scattered about the country, that would use local ore and coal to meet the needs of nearby markets. Each mill would cost less than $12 million. Other countries interested are Nigeria, Egypt, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, the Philippines and Morocco...