Word: parently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This irreverent proposal is the meat of a new book called Schools Without Scholars (Houghton Mimin; $3) by John Keats, free-lance writer and rebellious parent (of three) who has spent two years studying schools, lists as his only other qualification the note that he owns a typewriter. Keats's notion is that if the public wants better education, it should form "citizens' grand juries"-school boards frequently are too secretive and P.T.A.s too social to be useful-to make calm and exhaustive investigations of local schools. Then suggestions should be made and enforced...
...president of Sinclair Oil, stepped up to president, succeeding Percy C. Spencer, 64, who become chairman of the board and remains chief executive officer. Steiniger joined Sinclair in 1925, went to Venezuela in 1928. became president of Sinclair Venezuelan Petroleum in 1950. He was elected vice president of the parent company in 1955, became executive vice president last year...
...full display," was prepared to pass out Ds and Fs whenever necessary. Sharon and her buddies were prepared to ski in the Nationals. And the other Aspen schoolchildren were prepared to have a rousing good time. A couple of weeks ago, acting on the newly discovered principle that a parent can yank his child out of school whenever he feels like it, 15 of them got parental consent, hookyed off to watch some ski races...
...early 1930s strikers and shop owners had fought in the streets with shivs and sawed-off pool cues. Knife-wielding Communists ripped and clubbed workers in a vain attempt to run them into a Red-led splinter group. But in 1932, Dubinsky moved up to the presidency of the parent garment union, the International Ladies' Garment Workers, forced out the Communists, rallied the divided unionists, won concessions from management and steered labor into calm waters...
...affiliate. With initial capitalization of $38 million, chiefly from U.S. investors, American Petrofina, which is controlled by the Belgian parent company through its control of the board of directors, bought control of Texas' Panhandle Oil for $25 million in 1956, and in 1957 picked up Texas' American Liberty Oil Co. for about $32 million...