Word: textbooks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late sixties and early seventies, women like those in 888 Memorial Drive had been creating women's centers and marching in the streets because they understood that unless they made the theory of equality more than just a theory, women's rights would be just a textbook phrase. Radcliffe women have been getting A's for years. But the women in the streets, some of them bizarre, most of them angry, took the initiative to change the conditions we all agreed were dismal. They had impact, and now we're going to law school...
...graduated from Antioch College, and shortly thereafter took a job in Cornwall, Ont. He returned to the U.S. for his Army physical and a reexamination, but never showed up for his induction. Now he is a librarian in Toronto, where he plans to settle. "I still believe in the textbook ideal of the waving fields of grain and the paper boy who can eventually rise to be editor or publisher or whoever the top man is. I think it's a wonderful ideal. But the country that spread that ideal got very old very fast...
Since 1969, fundamentalists have been encouraged by Dr. John Ford, a San Diego physician and vice president of the state board of education, who has campaigned for mention of the biblical version of creation in all science textbooks. Evolution, said Ford, "should not be accepted as fact without alluding to creationism, which is felt to be sound by many scientists." That year, the board went along, issuing revised guidelines that urged the inclusion of both "theories." The guidelines were optional, however, and no major publisher adopted them. This year, after Dr. Ford raised the issue again, a state textbook commission...
BRITAIN'S Prime Minister Edward Heath this week took a page from the textbook of Nixonomics. Faced with one of the worst inflation rates in Europe, and with a fall in the value of the pound to an alltime low, Heath ordered a 90-day freeze on wages, prices, rents and dividends. That, he said, was only the "first stage" of a new anti-inflation policy. After 90 days (or possibly 150, since the freeze can be extended for 60 days), Britain will begin a "second stage" comparable to the U.S. Phase II. For that period, Heath will seek legislation...
...Cosa Nostra. Peter Maas's bestselling Valachi Papers was based largely on the testimony, and the movie, if we are to believe the screen credits, is based upon Maas's book, although it could just as easily have been lifted from Dick Tracy's Crimestoppers Textbook. The entire cast, in fact, look as if they were drawn by Chester Gould...