Word: normalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After a three-month test of trainees in the U.S. Army Signal Corps at Camp Gordon, Ga., the Human Resources Research Office of George Washington University had some good news for backers of educational TV. Most important findings of the test: 1) normal instruction time in one electronics course was cut in half when the course was presented on TV with visual gimmicks, e.g., closeups, cutaway models; 2) TV students remembered what they had learned as well as and often better than, students taught by regular classroom instructors; and 3) men with low I.Q.s benefited most, did far better...
...lives in a big colonial brick house in Greenwich, Conn., with his pretty wife and their five children-Tom III, 11 , Jeannette, 9, Olive, 7, Lucinda, 5, Susan, 2-and tries to lead the happy, solid life of a normal, 9-to-5 commuter. He is as hard-muscled as a 25-year-old, loves to ski and sail. Whenever he can, he sails his 47-ft. racing yawl Palawan on Long Island Sound, has taken it on two Newport-to-Bermuda races...
...Magnificent!" exclaimed the critics. "Spain has never seen anything like this." Spain had not. While bullfight tickets went begging, the carriage trade last week was paying up to five times the normal price to squeeze into Madrid's musty old Teatro de la Zarzuela and see the greatest hit in Spanish theatrical history. The hit: Al Sur del Pacifico. Translation: South Pacific...
...only predict a month ahead," he said, "and for that time anyway it's going to be below normal (43 degrees) with plenty of rain...
Last week, Ho's propagandists publicly recognized their difficulties by calling for "a resumption of normal . . . economic relations" with the South Viet Nam government of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem-in plainer terms, for some of Diem's 400,000 tons of surplus rice...