Word: parentes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council's bill would apply one to tuition, not room and board, and would give only 30 percent credit on this expense. But the credit would apply to actual tax payments, rather than as an exemption on the tax base. If passed, this bill would save $240 for every parent paying the full $800 Harvard College tuition...
...despite progress made in educating gifted children in the past two decades (notably in California, Ohio and New York City), much brain power is still going to waste. Among the possible remedies: special counselors to identify high I.Q. pupils as early as the first grade, advanced courses or classes, parent-teacher cooperation to encourage the gifted child's development without alienating him from his school pals. The U.S. is now spending disproportionately more time and effort on the handicapped than on training the children who should be its future scientists, scholars, spokesmen...
...every kid in the country," gasped one East Coast parent, "will be hounding his father for a trip to California...
DEALER RESTRICTIONS, by which companies prevent distributors from unloading surplus stocks outside their geographic areas, are in for a rough time from the Justice Department. Government lawyers have filed an antitrust suit against Philco for a clause in its contracts that gives the parent company the right to buy up (at cost) and sell back to the distributor any product that he sells outside his area or to an unauthorized dealer. Justice's charge: the clause eliminates competition, boycotts nonfranchised stores...
Bread & Water. Addington tracked down parents of the boys, found one father who said that guards had tied his son to a carpenter's sawhorse while they whipped him with straps. Another parent said that her boy had been whipped with a fan belt split at the end. Addington paid a surprise visit to the reformatory, demanded that Superintendent Jaffa Miller show him the jail, where he had been told that boys were kept on bread and water for days at a stretch. The jail proved to be filthy, airless cells, one containing three emaciated teen-agers stripped...