Word: surely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BIRDS by Brian Wildsmith (Watts; $4.95). In what is probably the best-illustrated of the year's picture books, Artist Wildsmith offers a series of 14 wonderful paintings of owls, pheasants, herons and other feathered creatures. There is no text, but youngsters and their parents are sure to be intrigued by his picture captions: a "congregation of plover," a "wedge of swans," a "stare of owls...
...markets, to be sure, have some excuses-though they almost invariably deny that there is even the smallest price or quality differential between neighborhoods. Overheads are higher in the slums, a result of such things as pilferage and steep insurance costs. There is also less competition, the final arbiter of price. Slum residents, who lack the mobility of suburbanites, are generally stuck with one or two stores-or the choice of going hungry...
...small card on the back of the next seat and tucked his head between his knees when he saw sparks from the Convair's nose. "I thought we were coming in for a normal landing," said Robert Cooley, who awoke 200 ft. from the debris. "I sure hate to land in Cincinnati," remarked Stewardess Eleanor Kurtock, a survivor, seconds before the airliner took its final plunge-7,050 ft. short of the airport's North-South Runway...
Wilcox explained that he was sure some "theory of limits" will be applied to the pass-fail option. The CEP proposal allows each department to decide whether students in that field can count pass-fail courses toward degree requirements. He hopes that most departments will allow students to take one or two pass-fail courses which count toward concentration...
...When I was in college I couldn't take pass-fail courses in my field, and I thought it was pretty silly," Robert P. Levine, acting chairman of the Biology Department said. "Now, I'm not sure. Some toughly graded courses might be hurt by a rush of pass-fail students. Right now, I'm confused...