Word: pittsburghs
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...Radcliffe Class of 1966 chose the following students as class marshals in last week's election: Caroline G. Balderston '66 of Jordan and Glen Mills, Penn: Julia W. Cheever '66 of 83 Brattle St. and Pittsburgh, Penn.; Julia M. Taylor '66 of Wolbach Hall and Mill Valley, Calif.; Stephanie R. Wecker '66 of Wolbach Hall and Riverdale. N.Y.; and Beverly Winikeff '66 of Comstock Hall and New York...
Adams, fourth-seed in the tournament, defeated Penn's Clay Hamlin in the first round, 3-1, but then bowed to Larry O'Laughlin of Pittsburgh, 15-10, 15-12, 15-10. O'Laughlin, a tough veteran, was unseeded because of insufficient data...
...TRAINING-with a twist. Vocational, technical and junior-executive education is more in demand than ever; yet the grubby old vocational school is dying, and good riddance. "Ambitious parents felt that for their children to identify with vocational courses was to perpetuate the laborer, anti-intellectual concept," Marland notes. Pittsburgh's contribution is job training given in comprehensive high schools, along with a respectable helping of academic courses. With the cooperation of local businessmen, the system has thoroughly modernized job-training equipment, and the proportion of students taking such courses has risen from...
...PREPRIMARY EDUCATION. Two years before the "Head Start" program was conceived, Pittsburgh was one of a handful of communities experimenting with uplifting preschoolers. Operated largely with Ford Foundation funds, the program now accommodates about 1,300 students, aged three and four, on an eleven-month program basis. Pre-primary classes are now run without federal funds, but as federal money becomes available this year, the program will double, using space made available through the purchase of prefabricated classrooms...
...state and $3,010 to the Federal Government-even if he lives in New Jersey or Connecticut. - Chicago School Board Member James W. Clement proposed a 1% city income tax to provide $115 million, mostly for education. (Ten cities now have income taxes, including Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Cincinnati...