Word: projects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meant less free, not more free. The term indicated that the best anyone could hope for was a slow, gradual removal of the tangled barriers, prohibitions and nationalist restrictions. At Geneva last year 18 nations had managed to write a draft charter for the proposed International Trade Organization, a project which, in the somewhat startling words of Sir Stafford Cripps, "had never before been attempted except at the tower of Babel." At Havana, where the nations convened last November to mold the Geneva draft into final shape, Babel's spirit still prevailed...
...group of doctors, psychologists and educators, heading the "Harlem Project," had spent four years collecting the shocking facts, and trying to do something about them. The project examined three schools: P.S. 120 for boys, P.S. 101 for girls, and P.S. 10, a co-ed elementary school. It found class after class of sullen and wretched children. There were boys who stole and "unmanageable girls" who screamed and shrieked and bit their neighbors. In one school, one out of five boys had been in court for truancy or delinquency...
...project found that 20% of the truants were too scared of gangs to walk to school. These gangs of schoolkids, who called themselves the "Noble Dukes," the "Socialists," or the "Majestics," roamed the streets of Harlem, in warfare that was not childish. In two years, three boys had been killed...
...Kindly, The Resentful. In P.S. 120, the project found that more than 90% of the boys were at least a year behind in reading and math. Some with normal I.Q.s kept failing in their work; and no one bothered to find out why. There was seldom a full file on any student...
...hundred students will be accepted for the vacation project, which is designed "to give American students the broadest possible acquaintance with the seaboard countries of Western Europe within nine weeks at a reasonable price," according to an NSA leaflet issued by Richard...