Word: modell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...during Oligocene time, the saber-toothed cat pattern was essentially frozen. In some cats, the length of the saber was proportionately as great as or greater than that of the culminating species in the ice age. Thirty-five million years is a pretty fair length of time for a model to be in style. Let us hope Professor Miner has a better background in sociology than he does in paleontology and evolution...
...conducted tours arranged by the Red Chinese tourist agency Luxingshe. Though they carefully emphasize the more attractive aspects of Chinese life, the tours nonetheless reveal a good deal of its quality and detail. The accompanying color pictures, taken on one such tour, show smiling children in their best dress, model schools, other civic projects and an air of brisk, bright uplift -but they also make clear the ceaseless indoctrination, the careful regimentation and the firm discipline that pervade life in Red China...
...ideas to local schools. But this argument is becoming obsolete. Most of the Ed School's new programs in local schools are ingenious combinations of "service" and research; the Harvard-Boston program this summer, for example, will involve 20 Harvard researchers working with 30 Boston teachers to plan a "model" curriculum for Roxbury schools...
...program, on which the Boston School Department has been working for more than a year, is to turn Roxbury's Boardman Elementary School and Lewis Junior High into a "model sub-system"--a testing ground for new ideas. The Boardman School was deliberately included by the Department, most observers feel, because it is one of the schools most criticized by parents' groups in Roxbury...
Last week the list came through. Since the 1960 model-year, there have been 426 recalls-or, as the industry prefers to call them, "campaigns." Of these, Ford had 184, involving 2,100,000 vehicles, General Motors had 171, affecting 4,700,000. Chrysler reported 24 involving 1,100,000 cars, and struggling American Motors had 47 on 796,000 cars...