Word: parently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because the feud is so bitter, most active CCA members will choose up sides next fall and throw their time and dollars to particular councillors regardless of the parent organizations position. Why all the fuss, then, over the CCA's formal stand...
Place in the Sun. A graduate of the State University College at Cortland, N.Y., Becker was assigned to Schuyler in 1934 as a physical education teacher, eventually became principal in 1962. His working theory is that a slum school must be parent and guardian as well as teacher to its students, a combination that demands tough but unmistakable discipline. His goal, he says, "is to try to give them academics and help them find a place in the sun as valuable members of society who can earn a good living. If we can't do both, we will...
...most impressively diversified aerospace manufacturers. In an era of bland corporate management, he insists on ruling his 20th century aeronautical beehive like a 19th century industrial barony. His warm paternalism is flavored with benevolent despotism; he customarily sends a pair of baby shoes when an employee becomes a parent but frowns on an employee leaving the plant for lunch...
Half a dozen of the most potent drugs used by physicians have been known for years to cause changes in the chromosomes in some of the body's cells, with the parallel risk that they might also cause genetic defects if the patient later became a parent. Up to now, such drugs have been used only in the treatment of advanced cancer, so the danger to children has been minimal. But last week, in the journal Science, a team of researchers at the State Uni- versity of New York in Buffalo reported that LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide), the favorite...
...knowledge industry, which is largely based on corporate partnerships that wed electronics and the printed word so as to participate in the U.S.'s education explosion. Since 1965, Raytheon has bought Boston's B.C. Heath, Xerox has assumed control of the Wesleyan University Press, and RCA, parent of CBS's great rival, NBC, has taken over Random House, is also diversifying in other ways (see following story). Time Inc. and General Electric have gone into a fifty-fifty partnership in a new firm called General Learning Corp. Beverly Hills-based Litton Industries plans to buy the American...