Word: stay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...math is rote learning of unexplained rules ("carrying," for instance); new math tries to cut away mystery by making computation seem real, open and understandable. New math is here to stay. But, as many a baffled parent suspects, the teaching of it is in deep confusion. Max Beberman, the Illinois professor who has been urging new math on the U.S. for a decade, is now "very much disturbed...
...yourself resurrection. Rejecting Legge's death sentence, Philharmonia members enlisted a sympathetic lawyer to help them over the legal shoals (even their name was owned by Legge), reorganized as a cooperative. By scrambling for TV concerts and recording engagements, the New Philharmonia has managed to stay solvent by a semiquaver, even manages to provide its members with 25 hours of work a week, about as much as they averaged in the old days...
This time the check was for $12,000, and sportswriters wondered if that might be enough to get Harney back on the tour to stay. "Nothing doing," said Paul. "I'd rather peddle clubs and balls from behind the counter...
Brains, most handlers insist, are the key to a hound's success in topflight competition. In the starting box, unable to see, dull-witted dogs tend to relax; the smart ones stay tense and ready. Says Florida Trainer F. B. Stutz: "They learn to listen for the sound of the rabbit coming up behind the boxes. They gauge just how much the noise has to fade before the lure is far enough away to trip the doors, and they're ready to jump when those doors open...
...Hooft is a leader who knows how to adapt to all these new situations." With the meeting hopelessly dead locked, the central committee created a nominating committee to check out new candidates - including, if they wish, Patrick Rodger. Visser 't Hooft, who wants to retire, will stay on until his successor is found...