Word: recommended
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Launched a year ago by George H. Baird, former research head of the Shaker Heights schools, the council is a nonprofit corporation of experts, who recommend improvements and charge the schools a modest fee to put ideas to work. "The nation has 603 organizations doing educational research," says Director Baird. "We are the only one set up specifically to make research available in the classroom...
Under the old (and typically American) system, Mississippi's state superintendent of education appointed committees of teachers to recommend books to local school boards. But the system seemed perilous to the Daughters of the American Revolution, who found the words of many a "subversive" author passing before the eyes of schoolchildren. Among such authors (most of them in standard anthologies of American literature): Novelist Jack London, Playwright Arthur Miller, Poets Carl Sandburg and Archibald MacLeish...
...increase, Tennessee Gas paid his law firm $60,444. The Chicago law firm of Jake Arvey, Illinois political kingpin, Democratic national committeeman, and an Adlai Stevenson stalwart in 1952 and 1956, got $15,000. Since neither was listed as attorney in the case, the FPC examiner who had recommended the increase wanted to know what they had done for the money. Said Tennessee Gas Vice President Ronald McVey: "When either of them encounters any situation which they believe would affect the company's welfare, they immediately advise the company and recommend a course of action to be pursued...
...relentlessly press the issue of civil rights and party regularity. Soon, he will announce the appointment of Eleanor Roosevelt as.chairman of a new group to draft some stiff civil rights platform proposals. The chances are "very strong" that he will send forth "task forces" of lawyers to investigate and recommend reprisals against the seven skittish Southern states which have indicated they may revolt rather than swallow a too-bitter civil rights pill...
...married to Zsa Zsa Gabor," he confides, "I lived in her sumptuous Bel Air mansion as a sort of paying guest." Communicating with Zsa Zsa was never easy, since she seemed to do almost everything under a hair dryer. But once she did come out long enough to recommend a good analyst for poor darling George. "In due course he not only cured me of my obsessional impulses and my periodic backaches, but he also cured...