Word: textbook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sheldon Diets '41 and the Harvard Cooperative Society are snarling at each other again--this time over the pedestrian bridge that the Coop wants to construct between its main building and its proposed textbook annex on Palmer...
...Moscow, Communist China's Mao Tse-tung is nothing more than a Red Hitler in search of Lebensraum. In a blistering editorial, Pravda pointed out that Peking had published a history textbook containing a map that showed China's frontiers as including parts of the Soviet far east-the Maritime Krai, Vladivostok and Sakhalin; a large part of Khabarovsk Krai and Amur Oblast; parts of Kirgizia, Tadzhikistan and Kazakhstan as far west as Lake Balk hash. This reinterpretation of geography would in effect push the Chinese border as much as 300 miles into the Soviet Union...
...unnerving degree of chance rules curriculum change in most of the 30,000 local school systems in the U.S. Lacking the financial and scholarly resources to rewrite courses, they have to take curriculums in packages from textbook publishers and teachers colleges. An energetic exception to this educational drift is suburban Cleveland, where 27 private, public and parochial school systems are partners in the Educational Research Council, a nonprofit laboratory for learning founded five years ago with backing from civic-minded Cleveland business leaders...
...almost every pause drives home some fact that a textbook might take pages explaining. The visitor sees that two balls, one dropped vertically and the other simultaneously fired horizontally, hit the ground together. "It takes but a few seconds, but the conviction is absolute and the memory is retained," says Lohr. Chicago now outdraws the Deutsches Museum by five...
...wives' tale has it that people pass 60 they need less sleep; a standard medical textbook known all doctors as "Best and Taylor"* solemnly avers that such elders need five to seven hours. Where do the medical authorities get such information? Probably from the old wives' tale, suggests Dr. Philip M. Tiller Jr. of New Orleans: so far as he can tell, there are no data to support the statement. And judging from his patients, it just...