Word: supervisor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office of the superintendent of education in Marin County, Calif., three elementary schoolteachers sat across a table facing four indignant supervisors. The supervisors had just made a horrifying discovery. The teachers had been teaching reading with a system based on pure phonics, and now, far from repenting, they wanted permission to buy a phonic text. As the debate raged back and forth, one supervisor finally blurted out: "But if we approve this book, other people will think we are giving in to Rudolf Flesch...
Last week's population, smaller than usual because of pre-Christmas discharges, included 18 women, 13 of them housewives, as well as a stenographer, a telephone supervisor, a clerk, an artist and one unemployed; among the eight men were two mechanics, a cleaner, a hairdresser, a steel inspector and three unemployed. Their illnesses range from the commonest neuroses to severe psychoses. The decision as to whether a patient can be admitted and effectively treated is made not on the basis of a diagnostic label, but on whether he or she is too disturbed, and thus likely to disturb others...
...buys the potatoes for the University's thousands can afford to order in hundreds of pounds. The man is William A. Heaman, supervisor of the Dining Hall Department, and his hundred-pound orders go out weekly from his office at 399 Harvard Street. Heaman buys his potatoes through a yearly contract with the F. J. Ward Company, but for all other commodities on the University menus, weekly contracts are let to wholesalers...
...Mary and the Christ child's on their flight into Egypt. Since 1949 the 100-sq.-mi. demilitarized zone created under the U.N. armistice has bulged like a blister into Israel's Negev desert holdings. In recent weeks Canadian Major General Edson L.M. Burns, the U.N. truce supervisor., has repeatedly warned the Egyptians to stop putting up "check points" inside the zone. The Israelis chose this area to attack...
...juvenile delinquency in the abstract is like opposing sin; only concrete actions count. Before time runs out on the Federal grant, the new City Councilors should join with City Manager Curry and produce some real progress toward urban renewal. As soon as possible they should appoint a general supervisor and establish a housing authority, so that the embryonic Redevelopment Authority will know where and how to start work. If these steps are taken and the necessary funds appropriated, Cambridge's Urban Renewal Plan can get under way while there is still something left to renew...