Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when Ethel and her Kennedy sisters-in-law, Eunice Shriver and Jean Smith, were schoolgirls there. (Mother Stoepel was transferred to Japan by her religious order in 1959.) To the grey-uniformed girls of the upper school, Ethel delivered a little speech that was warmly applauded even though its train of thought was a bit hard to follow. Said she: "I always thought that the United States was more liberal than this country, but it's not true. At Manhattanville, in my day, we were very virtuous. I understand now that you are allowed to get married." Visiting...
...blew in the windows of the Soviet news agency, Tass. At week's end a one-hour workers' strike to protest the police methods used to break up the Bastille demonstration stalled Parisian industry and business. City and suburban buses halted, the Paris subway and commuter train service was affected. Actress Brigitte Bardot, who had won respect last November by publicly defying an S.A.O. blackmail attempt, walked off a movie set along with film technicians...
...wintertime, the shapka requires some daring from its wearers. For, though the hat is worn all through Scandinavia as well as in Russia, many Americans associate it with Communism and the cold war. In Manhattan last year, a man in a shapka got on a subway train and sat down, whereupon a woman near by hissed: "Goddam foreigners!" He never wore his shapka again...
...influx of concentrators newly interested in music underscored the necessity for at least basic mastery of piano technique on the part of each concentrator. Music cannot, after all, be studied well without enough piano skill to train the ear, to read scores and to develop a modicum of acquaintance with actual presentation of the art. The department required such ability at the piano under Professor Merritt's chairmanship, although no credit was granted for the fulfillment of this requirement. The appointment of a distinguished pianist, Miss Luise Vosgerchian, to direct the instruction has given it new emphasis...
...attack on adult illiteracy. "Functional illiterates" in the U.S.-those adults with fewer than five years of schooling-numbered 7.8 million in 1959, and form the hard core of the unemployed. A fiveyear, $50 million program would help colleges train teachers to deal with the problem, give aid to states for the school districts where the illiterates are clustered...