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...modern kitchen, all the cook must do is read the recipe, mix the ingredients, set the stove, and give the pot an occasional stir. To psychologist B.F. Skinner, the classroom is like a modern kitchen and "there is no reason why the school room should be any less mechanized than ... the kitchen." The teacher should remain, but only as cook...

Author: By Paul H. Plotz, | Title: Skinner Machines Make Classroom Like Kitchen | 4/18/1956 | See Source »

...strings attached to it. The extraordinary newshawk he wants will first have to earn a diploma from the New Zealand army's School of Cooking and Bakery-and then be man enough to slave through long polar days and nights over both a hot typewriter and a hot stove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 9, 1956 | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

After sleeping through the night. Sir Winston Churchill awoke and learned that morning had brought big doings in his country home at Chartwell. Only a few steps from his bedroom, a kitchen oil stove had flared up, been doused by a maid and a house dick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 27, 1956 | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

...house in five rents for less than $25 a month, which, according to the Corcoran Report, "provides a cold-water, stove-heated flat in a substandard pre-1900 building which the landlord cannot afford to maintain." More than one house in three lacks central heating. One house in four is classified as "dilapidated" by the city. 16,000 of the 33,000 Cambridge homes are either threatened by, or engulfed in, blight...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: Harvard and Tomorrow's Community | 2/25/1956 | See Source »

Huey got a job selling Cottolene, an oil shortening, and he hopped about from farm to farm telling stories, baking cakes, quoting the Bible, and proclaiming: "I can sell anybody anything." Earl followed, selling shoe polish, stove polish, patent medicine. When Huey moved on to study law, so did Earl; when Huey entered state politics, so did Earl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Younger Brother | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

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