Word: parented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boston Rumblings are heard in South Boston, but no one predicts a return of riot police or tear gas. A citywide Parent Advisory Council established by Federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. has done much to defuse race tension. Another worry is low test scores. The national median on the Scholastic Aptitude Test is 429 on the verbal exam, 471 for math. Boston's white students are scoring 445 on the verbal and 464 on the math, blacks 331 on verbal, 339 on math...
This case is not the only embarrassment for American Telephone & Telegraph Co., parent of the Bell companies L.E. Rast, president of Atlanta-headquartered Southern Bell, John J. Ryan, former vice president and general manager for Bell operations in North Carolina, and three other company executives have been indicted in North Carolina on charges of conspiring to force other company officials into falsifying expense accounts so that the money could go into illegal political contributions. The company has admitted that some 80 Southern Bell executives between 1971 and 1973 made contributions to politicians totaling $142,000. Ryan last week pleaded...
...broader context, the panel noted that the number of children under 18 who live in two-parent homes has dropped from 89% in 1960 to 80% and speculated that family disruption might lower scores. TV was cited as a probable factor: the panel figured that "by age 16, most children have spent between 10,000 and 15,000 hours watching television, more time than they have spent in school." Then, too, the decline in scores took place during a decade of distraction: "political assassination, burning cities and the corruption of national leadership." Finally, the group cited a striking lack...
...estimated $5 million, the prodigal-along with his former New York designer Milton Glaser and Publisher Vere Harmsworth's Associated Newspapers Group Ltd. (London's Daily Mail, Evening News and 42 smaller British papers) -will buy the 44-year-old monthly from its highly diversified parent, Esquire Inc. Glaser will become design director, Felker editor in chief as well as the chief executive of the magazine company; Harmsworth will be chairman...
...glossy monthly's 296-page August issue is so loaded with ads that readers have a hard time dogging a feature story through the thickets of plug. "We're beginning to turn some advertisers down," admits Seth Baker, president of CHC Corp., the magazine's parent company. "We're going to have to be more selective...