Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tights and leotards have passed the fad stage, and some manufacturers report shipments running 30% ahead of last year. To go with the tights, stores are pushing boots with raccoon trim, corduroy or plaid coverings. Back-to-school teen-agers have also taken to some nonclothing fads. Among them: plastic-coated textbook covers with zany titles such as "Embalming Can Be Fun," by "Maude Lynn...
...Faculty-members who had begun laying definite plans for the Program decided that passage of the resolution could be best assured by avoiding discussion of specifics. It would be very hard, of course, to prove that such a strategem was ever consciously planned and carried out; but this report typifies the atmosphere of intrigue--and suspicion of intrigue--in which the Program has so far grown...
Green Light. One of Conant's most potent prescriptions was the "academic inventory." a yearly comparison between bright students' capacities and the elective courses they actually choose. Like a stockholder's report, it sums up a school's income and outgo. And it goes straight to the heart of the matter: guidance...
Conant is something of a guidance man himself. Things have happened in U.S. public schools since his calm, compact "first report to interested citizens" began to circulate. With 224,824 copies in print. his book is the first education bestseller since the vastly more excited Why Johnny Can't Read (1955). "With the mantle of Dr. Conant around me," as one principal puts it, many a working schoolman has finally got the school board's green light for scores of reforms and experiments that promise to make the new year one of the richest in history. Items...
From the Commerce Department came a report calculated to throw a chill into both steel labor and steel management. During July, steel imports-which were pushing toward new highs even before the strike began-soared to a monthly record of 430,000 tons. The new imports brought the seven-month intake to 2.3 million tons, almost the equivalent of the output of a steel mill the size of Republic's 9,500-man Cleveland plant; foreign steel mills in 1959 had already sold U.S. customers more steel than in any full year in history. Republic Steel's Chairman...