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...premiere Cavett brought on as his first guest Master Builder Buckminster Fuller (TIME cover, Jan. 10, 1964). "I'm only 72," said Fuller. "You don't look a day over 70," said Cavett. When the talk got more cosmic, Fuller suggested that in future centuries women would revert to wearing fig leaves. Cavett asked: "What is it about fig leaves. Do they have some peculiar clinging power?" Fuller: "They are relatively large and durable . . ." Cavett: "And washable and 90% Dacron...
...also critical of reading courses that use a mechanical pacer, as students tend to revert to previous reading speeds once the pacer is not there to help them. When reading dynamically, the reader's hand is used as a pacer. Improvement by typical graduates In words per minute.** BOSTON AND PROVIDENCE Name Occupation Easy Beg. Easy End. Dif. Beg. Dif. End. Ackley, Frederick, Minister 467 1491 317 1112 Barry, Louise, Housewife 406 1392 433 1240 Bellin, Steven, Student 404 1015 406 2112 Cagle, Ralph, Graduate Student 672 1500 464 1584 Cembrola, Joe, Student 336 1120 257 900 Demers, Paula, Student...
...also critical of reading courses that use a mechanical pacer, as students tend to revert to previous reading speeds once the pacer is not there to help them. When reading dynamically, the reader's hand is used as a pacer...
...hour period thereafter. Each day at a stated hour the exact number will be announced. It may be verified by neutral observers. It will be distributed in leaflets to the North, and that will be the number of bombs dropped on North Viet Nam the following day. Meanwhile, we revert to undeclared peace and resume our count. General Ho could control the number of bombs to be dropped on his people every day. The people of the North would have the knowledge that their leaders had intentionally invited whatever suffering they received and could halt it any day they wished...
Rudolph began the much-damned new pattern as a temporary measure last summer, to allow construction of the Cambridge St. underpass. The rotary is unpopular with residents of streets bordering on the Common, and the Council has told the traffic director to revert to the former pattern as soon as possible...