Word: topic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington's No. 1 topic last week, overpowering talk of Viet Nam, Charles de Gaulle and the Sino-Soviet split. Lyndon Johnson, who had hoped that the subject might vanish of its own accord, now found himself devoting an extraordinary amount of time to talking and thinking about it. "I remember," he told a convention of municipal officials at the Washington Hilton Hotel, "when you couldn't walk into any hostess's home without them saying, 'What do you think about McCarthy?' A month ago, it was 'What do you think about the pause...
Inflation was certainly on almost everyone's mind. The housewife could see it on almost every price tag in the supermarket, the businessman in the price he pays for raw materials, the consumer in the rising cost of services. In fact, inflation is so much a topic of conversation that when Los Angeles Dodger Pitchers Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale signed last week for a new joint contract totaling some $240,000, it was widely -and wryly-noted that their raise exceeded the President's 3.2% anti-inflationary wage guidelines by quite a bit. The increase...
Kindergarten Teacher Irene Patterson asks her children about spring, gets murmured answers about birds and flowers, finds that the topic becomes vivid and exciting to the kids after they view a film showing buds bursting into leaves through speeded-up film. A similar movie, also speeded up, shows how a caterpillar spins a cocoon, emerges as a splendid monarch butterfly-an experience no textbook or teacher or even nature can otherwise convey...
Project Discovery teachers generally like the variety of films available, although they would prefer more short films, each on a narrowly specific topic, and more biographical films. Teachers at Scott Montgomery would like to see more films that do not portray "white middle-class suburban America." It would now cost other schools about $16 per pupil per year to duplicate the project's facilities, but this cost will decline as demand increases. Despite the advantages, no one expects films to become more than just another of a teacher's many tools. The teacher, says E.B.F.'s Howell...
...Parietals should be unlimited" is the topic of the interhouse debate between Kirkland and Winthrop Houses at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Winthrop Junior Common Room...