Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...children by one I.Q. test. Yet many of the challenges -typically, picture puzzles, number games or scrambled sentences-do not measure native intelligence so much as cultural advantages such as familiarity with vocabulary and material objects. Thus I.Q.s. instead of being fixed for life, can be raised by training. Then why not train children...
...provoke curiosity and generate sympathy. Once she dashed into a department store shortly before closing time without locking her bike properly, came out to find a strange man standing guard over it. "All he said was 'I'm glad you came back. I have to catch a train, but I was afraid that someone would steal your bike.'" At the movies, she adds, "I usually put it where the person in the box office can see it. She's delighted to keep an eye on it." A motorcycle cop once gave Sweater Designer Pamela Colin...
...When the train reached the Soviet sector check point of Schoenfeld in Berlin, East German police swarmed everywhere in and alongside the train. They pulled six teen-agers and an elderly woman off the train, herded them toward a group of 20 disconsolate East Germans presumably jerked off earlier trains. One girl with short blonde hair and a green raincoat dropped her bag and began to cry as she was taken off. As the train pulled away toward West Berlin, I watched a policeman pick up her bag, lead her sobbing into a green barracks office while a Soviet soldier...
Parallel with such military and defense plans, the U.S. wants to train many more Vietnamese administrative officers, give them authority to act independently without the present minute, hamstringing scrutiny from Saigon. To educate illiterate villagers to the Communist threat, mobile movie units will roam the countryside and lecturers will constantly tour the towns. On a long-range basis, new efforts will be made to increase rice production still further, encourage greater capital investment in industry...
...Lever Bros. Co., the nine-acre complex will include a 25,000-seat main sports arena, a 4,000-seat auxiliary arena, a 28-story luxury hotel, a 34-story office building, and parking facilities for 3,000 cars. Only the sub-street-level waiting room and the train concourse will be kept of the old Penn Station. In order not to interrupt train service, the builders will install a reinforced concrete slab at street level before razing the superstructure of the station...