Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sense. Penny symbolizes the success of a heartening movement in the education of the blind. A few cities like Chicago have for years tried to integrate blind children into regular classes, but most states have relied on special residential schools, where the blind live and learn only among their own kind. Then, in the 1940s, hundreds of premature infants, though saved by incubators, were stricken with retrolental fibroplasia and blindness because of an overexposure to oxygen. As these children grew to school age, the integration movement finally got going in earnest. Today, scores of cities across...
...Skip, Jump. With minor local variations, the basic program is the same in all cities practicing integration. In Detroit, for instance, the school system sends out special counselors to help parents with their new blind babies. At three or four, the children go to a preprimary school, where they learn to run, hop, skip, play at sand tables and even fingerpaint. Later, they learn to read and write in Braille and to use a typewriter. By the sixth or seventh grade, they are ready to take their place in normal classes...
...Boston, integration often starts earlier. But along with special classes in Braille, the. children are introduced to their schools before the term begins. They learn their way around the halls, how to get to the washrooms and use the playground equipment. Though they spend part of each day in a home room that is equipped with Braille books and typewriters, they can take almost all of their schools' regular courses. In Dallas, which began its program in 1951, the blind start their school careers under specially trained teachers, are gradually weaned away until they can join their sighted classmates...
...last week the dues protest (TIME, Nov. 26) had snowballed into the biggest revolt in the Steelworkers' 20-year history. Spontaneously, over 100 of the union's 2,750 locals have passed resolutions for a special convention to rescind the dues hike, among them the 20,000-man Local 1014 at U.S. Steel's Gary (Ind.) plant, the Steelworkers' biggest unit. Even McDonald's home local 1272 at Jones & Laughlin's southside plant in Pittsburgh passed the protest resolution...
...point where they were creating "confusion, turmoil and distrust, and promoting dual unionism." He warned the protestors that their insubordination might well lead to expulsion from the union. Furthermore, even if the "dissenters" mustered a fourth of all the locals, as required by the Constitution to call a special convention, there would still be no such meeting. For the Constitution also held, said McDonald, that special conventions could deal only with "new business"; the dues matter...