Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apprentice program for blacks; though at present only 43 trainees (out of a total of 3,278 nonwhite workers) are enrolled in the five-year course, the company plans to expand the program over the next two years. Other Ford achievements: a desegregated sports program, in which the races mix easily in soccer games and in company recreation rooms, and a home-loan plan that has enabled 212 nonwhite employees to build their own houses...
...festival (this year's theme: Philosophers' Reverie) on the chancery grounds in Bonn, Schmidt got a little help from a professional conjurer and presto! levitated a woman. Then the Chancellor jubilantly passed a hoop over her body to show that it was not supported by wires. Why mix politics and magic? Like the levitated body, explained Schmidt, "problems are suspended and have to be solved...
Radcliffe also suffered a 45 per cent cut in its federal grant for the National Guaranteed Student Loan program which provides federally-subsidized loans to students at an interest rate of only 3 per cent. This mix-up stemmed from the academic year 1976-77 when NGSL funds were denied to freshmen men so Harvard would have enough NDSL funds to continue the low-interest loans to upperclassmen. Radcliffe had plenty of NDSL money for all undergraduate women, but a number of freshmen women thought they too were ineligible and did not apply for the loans. When...
...kindergarten? Well, sort of. The students, named Sherman and Austin, are chimpanzees, enrolled in an extraordinary class at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center in Atlanta. Despite their occasional unruly conduct, they are being successfully taught to "talk" to each other in a language other than their own usual mix of sounds and gestures. That may be a scientific first, say their instructors, who are led by a husband-wife team of psychologists, Yerkes' Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Georgia State University's Duane Rumbaugh...
...gumo-philes who prefer to make their own. Using a powdered gum base called POW!, combined with corn syrup, confectioners' sugar and just about any flavoring and color imaginable, chew-it-yourselfers can concoct a 25-ft. length of bubble gum from a $2, 2-lb. package of mix-about half the price of the manufactured product. Says POW! Entrepreneur Fred Starkey: "If scotch is your favorite drink, flavor it with scotch. If you like fruit cocktail, use that, or use Kool-Aid." He adds with a nervous chuckle: "I've had feedback that the kids are putting...