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...much of a dreamer. His ideas are a little too far out," said Walter Plumer, 51, of Durham, remembering Brown's second run for the nomination...
...Bailey is the sixth elector in U.S. history to defy his party. The others: Pennsylvanian Samuel Miles, chosen as a Federalist, voted for Thomas Jefferson rather than John Adams in 1796; former Senator William Plumer of New Hampshire voted for John Quincy Adams rather than James Monroe, 1820; Preston Parks of Tennessee voted for Strom Thurmond instead of Harry Truman, 1948; W. F. Turner of Alabama voted for a circuit judge instead of Adlai Stevenson, 1956; Henry D. Irwin of Oklahoma ignored his pledge to Nixon and voted for Virginia Senator Harry Byrd...
Last year, for example, George Thomas, associate in Education, and Davenport Plumer, research assistant in Education, found that they and their students at Timility Junior High in Roxbury had trouble talking to each other. They tried a number of devices--including class reading of plays such as "A Raisin in the Sun"-- and had some success, but the researchers coulln't tell whether the difficulty lay in themselves, the students or the school...
This year 11 researchers, including Thomas and Plumer, will begin a project studying language in the schools. They will record children talking at a playground, children talking in small groups at school and teachers speaking in classrooms. They hope to know by the end of the year such things as whether children speak more fluently among their own peers or in a mixed group of Negro and white students or rich and poor students, and whether many teachers talk over the heads of their students or deny them opportunities to speak. Then, the group hopes, it will be able...
First Place Davenport Plumer...