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Smash Success. To beat the logistics problem and find out just how effective film can be when teachers can integrate it naturally into their instruction, E.B.F. and Bell & Howell Co. have sent $650,600 worth of films and new, automatic-threading sound projectors to schools in wealthy Shaker Heights, Ohio, a slum area of Washington, D.C., suburban Daly City, Calif., and rural Terrell, Texas. Researchers from Ohio State University are evaluating the three-to four-year experiment under a grant from the U.S. Office of Education. Although the researchers' verdicts are months away, teachers and students already consider Project...
...father, Shaker Morris DeBakey, 80 this week, came to the U.S. from Lebanon when he was 15. By the time his son Michael was in high school, Shaker DeBakey owned a drugstore where the boy helped out and nourished the desire-acquired years earlier-to become a doctor. From his father, says Mike DeBakey, he learned his early-rising habits, the absolute abhorrence of wasted time that has marked his en tire career. His mother, whom DeBakey remembers as "the most compassionate and sweetest person I've ever known," also contributed to his career. She taught her two sons...
...table salt shaker gets only 4% of the 13 million tons of salt produced in the U.S. each year. The rest goes into a vast variety of products: pickles and ice cream, lipstick and dyes, catchup and candy, cattle feed and air conditioners, plastics and newspapers. The world's biggest producer of salt-and the source of nearly a third of the salt used for all purposes in the U.S.-is Chicago's Morton Salt Co., which is known to most Americans through its motto, "When it rains, it pours...
...overnight train to Paris. One tells the other in a friendly way that he is a cannibal and intends to eat his companion as soon as he falls asleep. Ridiculous, naturally. No, really, the first man is quite serious. He opens a small satchel and brings out a salt shaker and tools for dismembering a body...
...Negro, Frank, that's Bernie Hamilton, and Julie, that's Barbara Barie, set up house just outside of town, named Plainesville. Really, it's in Ohio. Julie's daughter (played by a snot nose, from Shaker Heights I bet) soon has company--it came out in between, you know. Then the white husband comes back and wants his daughter. After all, living with Negroes, and it was partly his own child...