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...three years old, the nonprofit foundation handles up to 350 children in each eleven-week term. Most have been referred by Chicago area schools, psychologists or social agencies. School officials report that children who take the training often double their rate of learning; Footlik claims that the clinic so far has not failed to improve the reading ability of any child who sticks with the drills long enough. No one yet knows, however, whether the bullying technique has harmful long-range effects on personality development. James Weddell, director of Purdue University's Achievement Center for Children, says some...
...practical exercise of people-to-people diplomacy, 13 foreign envoys and their families recently took a 5,000-mile, expense-paid trailer trip across the U.S. Organized by nonprofit Travel Program for Foreign Diplomats Inc., the tour's aim was to let the visitors "get to know us, our land, our people and our institutions...
Enlightened Self-Interest. Founded last January as an outgrowth of Urban America Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to the study of city problems, the Urban Coalition meets the need for a concerted effort on the part of all the institutions and individuals most concerned with the city...
...Rifle Association, it is published in Washington and distributed to the N.R.A.'s 800,000 members, who pay $5 annual dues and, if they are organized into gun clubs, also receive free ammunition and cut-rate weapons from the Defense Department. Since it is put out by a nonprofit organization, the Rifleman is taxexempt; in 1966, it earned a tax-free $1,365,054 in advertising revenue, 13% of it from mailorder gun houses...
...initials are for United States Pharmacopoeia, a 1,200-page volume, revised every five years, that is produced by a private, nonprofit association of physicians, pharmacists, chemists and biologists. Congress has repeatedly specified that U.S.P. standards, which now cover 900 pharmaceutical products, shall be accepted as minimum qualifications by Government agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration...