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...class period, the section leader will fire these questions at students and hopefully will receive an answer immediately in perfect German. "I definitely do not want my students to translate the question into English, formulate an answer, and then translate this back into German; I want them to think directly in German," Stein states. Although it is yet too early to evaluate the success of this limited oral-aural approach in reading courses, the new method certainly represents an advance over the tedious--and less educational--process of grammatical exposition. With the rapid fire of question and answer, classes become...
Repetition enters into the classroom as well as into the language lab. After all, the exponents of the oral-aural method state, a child learns his language habits only through constant exposure to and practice of a single tongue. The child does not think consciously, "Does this preposition take the dative case? Is the definite article placed before or after the past participle? What is the gender of this noun?" Rather, he learns almost instinctively what is correct and what is not. And it is precisely this sort of semi-innate knowledge which the direct method seeks to inculate...
...Said Russell H. Eichman, vice president of Cleveland's Central National Bank: "If the steel strike requires a slowing up of auto sales, that in itself will automatically ease the tight money situation." Said Scott L. Moore, president of the American National Bank of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.: "I think the tight money situation will last another six to eight months. Right now merchants in my town are borrowing money for income tax purposes...
Alexander believes there may be more jiggling of rates when holiday financing steps up and the steel strike ends. But, he says hopefully, "there is a good likelihood that the worst pressure on rates is past. A sustained strong upward force is unlikely." He does not think that tight money will harm the boom: "The supply of money and credit is not exhausted. The banking system is heavily loaned, but not loaned up." He is not concerned about high money rates, points out that for long periods short-term rates wrere actually above long-term yields. Says...
...above its stable of keen financial brains, the bank has one great advantage over almost all others. Through its long history, it established, financed or otherwise contributed to the success of dozens of U.S. corporate giants. Having benefited from the financial brains of the bank, many a corporation would think of going nowhere else. Said one loyal customer: "Memories are long in the banking world...