Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Canada's economic and cultural growth but to anticipate and stay ahead of that growth," said White. "It is not enough to have correspondents in the centers of population; more and more significant news is being made out in the bush, in mining towns, in tough, hard-to-reach areas where men are digging, farming, lumbering and gathering the riches of a rich land...
...would take big chances," J.D.R. Jr. exhorted his colleagues. "If we keep at it, and follow up all possible clues, we shall eventually reach the desired goals." Often it was not easy. One dark season more than 20 people were killed in picket-line skirmishes at the Rockefeller-controlled Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. In Manhattan angry crowds howled for J.D.R. Jr.'s blood: "Shoot him down like a dog!" J.D.R. Jr., first reacting instinctively to defend his Colorado managers, later went out to Colorado with a bright young Canadian labor-relations expert named W. L. Mackenzie King (who became...
Although St. Louis started testing for gifted students three years ago, only one batch of 250 gifted sixth-graders (out of the 7,000 or so youngsters who reach sixth grade each year) has been exposed to the advanced program so far. How has it affected them? In natural sciences, science reading and vocabulary the gifted sixth-graders moved from average ninth-grade work to work comparable to that done by the upper fourth of ninth-grade classes...
Halting the Loss. Superintendent Hickey freely acknowledges that the program is still experimental and subject to substantial revision. St. Louis has not yet determined what to do with its gifted sixth-graders when they reach high school. Even the curriculum is likely to be revised as the program's administrators gain more experience. But to Hickey and the others working with him, the important fact is that a start has been made toward halting the loss of brainpower which St. Louis, in common with other, cities, has suffered through failure to detect top talent...
...England, he was brought to northwestern Canada by his parents when he was a youngster. He went to work as a "grease pig," leading the slow-moving donkeys hauling their loads of coal. Any job under the sun would have been better, and young Johnny made a long reach for light and air. At 15, he began to pick up small change riding "Roman" style at the "bull rings" around Calgary. Steering two mounts from a standing position, one foot on the back of each, Johnny demonstrated his innate skill at horsemanship...