Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quiet Sardinian flew back home at week's end as unostentatiously as he arrived. Among his souvenirs: political profit accruing to the first NATO-country Premier to be briefed by President Eisenhower on the Khrushchev talks. He had also the knowledge that the U.S. accounts him a good friend...
Utrecht sailed on to Boston, thence toward New York. At 6:55 on the last night out, Nita Spector knocked on the door of Cabin 7, called Lynn for dinner. The secretary replied that she was not feeling well. A steward knocked again at 7:05; he heard only quiet sobbing and left. At 9 o'clock Mrs. Spector returned to Lynn's cabin with the Utrecht purser. The cabin was empty, and Lynn Kauffman was not again seen alive...
...idea began three years ago with a quiet pilot project, financed by the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Scholarship Fund for Negro Students, at Manhattan's Junior High School 43 on the western fringe of Harlem. No school could have been better chosen. Its students (85% Negro and Puerto Rican) 'rere demoralized and uninterested; de-leatist parents saw little future for their children and took scant notice of their schooling...
...quiet prairie town of St. Charles, Ill. (pop. 7,700), 33 miles west of Chicago, is known mainly as the site of the state reform school. But last week its new high school science setup was the talk of visiting college teachers, who had never seen anything like it in their own institutions. Nothing so delighted the venturesome St. Charles school board, which wrested $140,000 out of the voters and another $30,000 from the town's late, crusty philanthropist, Colonel E. J. Baker (TIME, Nov. 10), for two of the dandiest classroom labs ever conceived...
...moment the camera focused on the kids in the cast, Armstrong Circle Theater's Zone of Silence (CBS) changed from a quiet, competent documentary into a warm and moving play. A tour through The Bronx's St. Joseph's School for the Deaf turned into a tense, hour-long exploration of all the dimensions of a handicapped child's difficulties. With consistent skill, none of the youngsters ever seemed to slip out of the isolating "zone of silence," but none of them fitted the difficult script with more professional precision than a blue-eyed, bang-trimmed...