Word: township
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speakers will include Lawrence A. Cremin, Frederick Barnard Professor of Education at Columbia University; Herold C. Hunt, C. W. Eliot Professor of Education at the School of Education; and Lloyd S. Michael, superintendent of Evanston Township High School in Evanston, Illinois...
...Jeffrey Liebman of Evanston, Ill. got a four-minute standing ovation when the President's telegram was read to a student assembly. He heard not a clap of it, having been deaf since birth. He attends Evanston's college-sized Township High, reads lips so fluently that some classmates are unaware of his deafness. Hugely versatile, Jeffrey was a state winner in the Science Talent Search for his experiment on fast evaporation, won a Carnegie Tech creative-writing prize for an essay on Salinger and Kafka, a national prize for a one-act play, and a letter...
...Piece. Hollywood lies light-years distant from Indiana's papaw country, but Reporter Ross's collection successfully encompasses both. In The Yellow Bus, she recounts a New York visit of the Bean Blossom Township High School's 1960 senior class - a narrative so coldly and devastatingly honest that, even today, at least one Bean Blossom faculty member cannot think about it without getting mad. In Picture, she exhaustively tracks the course of John Huston's film, The Red Badge of Courage, from conception to box office - where it flopped. After that dissection, doors slammed shut...
...arrest African Leader Joshua Nkomo and three officials of his People's Caretaker Council, whom the government accused of "dragging the country from crisis to crisis." The arrest triggered riots that brought white cops with tear gas, dogs and swinging truncheons into Salisbury's Highfield African Township. Before the week was out, more than 250 Africans had been arrested...
Such all-out partying is a privilege of old-house inhabitants that Levittownsmen know not of. Manhattan Executive Edgar Smith has two large living rooms in his 1784 house in Morris Township, N.J., which enable adults and children to entertain separately. And in their 60-year-old stone house at Chestnut Hill, Pa., English Teacher Richard H. Tyre and his wife have been able to make an entire wing off limits for their three children (eleven, seven and two). With 24 rooms, they can afford to set aside one as a "Birthday Party Room," for "little kids with sticky fingers...