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When the annual step-by-step reductions begin next Jan. 1, U.S. consumers stand to pay lower prices for many imports-if inflation and middlemen do not soak up the tariff savings. The wholesale price of a $300 Japanese motorcycle will decline to $297 in 1968, finally level out at $286 in 1972. Other reductions will be substantial. Tariffs will fall from 1210 to 60 a gallon for beer, from $1.02 to 510 a gallon for Irish and Scotch whisky. Duties will come down 50% or more on such items as silk scarves (to 16%), diamonds over...
Ambassador Goldberg's speech at the United Nations on Thursday contained an eloquent and conciliatory summary of this country's proposals to Hanoi for ending the war in Vietnam. In reaffirming publicly the U.S.'s offer, already made privately, for step-by-step de-escalation, the speech reinforced the credibility of the proposals, and put pressure on the North Vietnamese to accept them...
...basic knowledge to him." Doman claims that a baby will take to the written word as easily as to the spoken language and can even learn to read before he learns to speak-if the written word is presented repeatedly and in large letters. His book details step-by-step teaching sessions, beginning at two years with several daily periods of less than five minutes each. Example: the parent touches the baby's toes, pronounces the word "toes," holds up a large sign with the word on it. Each session must be a "game" that both participants...
...computer accepts problems wired from Cambridge and translates its calculations into televised diagrams showing the step-by-step process of solving the problems...
...major reason for the speedup is that the step-by-step procedure helps a teacher spot precisely what is puzzling a child-and the method frees her "to give such children help without holding up others. It also gives her a chance to cope with one of the most worrisome facts facing every elementary teacher: the broad range in mental age (at least four years in a typical first-grade class) among her students. But the real key to the program's success, in Sullivan's view, is that in his books "the kids were...