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...post as an expert on remedial reading. Walker has even devised a phonetic spelling system which would make the language much easier for the foreigner. In Cambridge there are a number of schools experimenting with various new approaches to the task of bringing immigrant children up to par...
John Purdy's three-under-par 69 led Kirkland House to victory in the House golf tournament and vaulted it into the early lead for the Straus...
...main reason for such a calamity would be a sub-par showing by Crimson goalie Jay Breese. The junior netminder, very recently the number three man behind John Axten and Dick Locksley, has suddenly become the man of the hour as far as Harvard soccer fortunes are concerned...
...vice-presidency, Reagan insists that the governorship "offers a greater opportunity" to him "than there is in that other office." However, his protestations leave many professional observers unconvinced. "That's par for the course," chortled an elderly party in a Washington steam bath last week. That comment came from white-thatched Earl Warren, now Supreme Court Chief Justice, who, as Governor of California in 1948, gave up his dreams of running for President and accepted second spot on a ticket headed by New Yorker Tom Dewey...
...retrospect, Picasso's reluctance to have his sculpture judged on a par with his painting seems a needless reticence. For, although he has treated sculpture as something he did with his left hand, the present exhibition proves that his left hand knew quite well what the right hand drew, and on occasion did it better. Even the simplest piece-a hawk's head snipped from a piece of sheet iron-needs no signature. The work is plainly Picasso...