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...Sunday morning about 1940 when the Carter family was getting ready for church, Jimmy, then a high school senior, tried to smear down three-year-old Billy's unruly blond hair with brilliantine. When Billy squirmed, Jimmy threw him faceup across his lap and shook the bottle above his mouth. The top fell off and the hair oil poured over Billy's face...
...psychology). According to Koerner there is little evidence that this program of study improves teacher performance. Koerner calls for more intellectually demanding but more flexible requirements to make the field more attractive to talented people who lack specialized teaching credentials. A small step in this direction is a three-year-old pilot program run by the school board in Hanover, N.H. There, college graduates who want to teach are carefully screened for such qualities as imagination and love of children, as well as academic competency. After a year of probationary teaching, chosen candidates become certified teachers...
Appreciating that breakthroughs very often come from individuals rather than from the labs of giant corporations, the Department of Energy has expanded its three-year-old program of small grants to spur research and support small-scale energy innovators. This year DOE will spend $12 million to finance about 800 different projects around the country, vs. $8 million and 584 projects in 1979. The department's local offices loudly promoted the program with radio and television pitches that urged anyone with an idea to write and ask for a grant before last month's deadline. Says Rex Williams...
Calumet Farm's Twilight Tear was Horse of the Year in 1944, but she too was held out of the Triple Crown races as a three-year-old. She went on to beat colts in handicap races later that year. Now, for the first time in 65 years, a filly has beaten the colts in one of the spring classics of the Triple Crown...
...prisoner of the Japanese in the Philippines, as was Mrs. Crouter, but after reading the article about her I wonder if we were in different wars, held by different captors. As a three-year-old, I suffered from kwashiorkor, a severe protein deficiency; this was not helped by eating the weevils in the rice, which we left in for their protein value. I remember three young men who were shot for trying to escape. We were forced to watch them dig their own graves, and then watch the execution itself...