Word: publically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tackling the U.S. teacher shortage, Yale last week announced the results of a three-year project directed by Yale Education Professor Emeritus Clyde M. Hill. Eight Connecticut housewives (aged 30 to 45) attended special classes at the University of Bridgeport, taught part time in the public schools of Fairfield. All the women got higher academic scores than the norm for college girls, compared favorably with new college graduates. All taught better for having broader life experience than the average young teacher. Yale's total training cost per teacher: $750, much less than for younger student teachers. With five...
...give me a direct answer? Did this high public official offer a bribe...
...sooner had Gleason's confession been made public than the World-Telegram fired him. As for Colleague Cook, he had declared on the television show that he had reported the bribery attempt to his World-Telegram superiors. Later, he toned down that flat statement, merely claimed that he had mentioned the matter to City Editor Norton Mockridge "in the course of a long lunch" several weeks after the bribe was allegedly offered. But Mockridge denied ever having heard of the sorry business-and at that point Rewriteman Fred Cook followed Legman Gene Gleason right off the World-Telegram payroll...
...medicine's continuing war against cigarettes as the principal cause of lung cancer, Surgeon General Leroy Burney of the U.S. Public Health Service was back in the ring last week, punching hard in another round. In the A.M.A. Journal, Dr. Burney reiterated that 1) all smokers have a higher death rate from lung cancer than nonsmokers, 2) heavy and long-continued cigarette smoking goes with the highest lung-cancer death rate, and 3) it helps somewhat to quit smoking, even after years of indulgence. But this time Dr. Burney went farther, added: "No method of treating tobacco or filtering...
...Mercury plant to produce Ford's Falcon and the new Comet, scheduled to make its appearance next spring. Ford will not cut back on Mercury -other Mercury plants will take up the slack. It just needs a third production facility to turn out all the compacts the U.S. public apparently wants...