Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many cities no other tool seems to exist to break up all-black schools. But the Nixon Administration takes quiet pride in its work in finishing the demolition of the dual school systems of the South, and also in encouraging craft unions, via the Philadelphia Plan, to admit and train minority members...
Dewey's Heirs. A stocky, forceful divorcee who looks a bit like a traditional schoolmarm, Mrs. Weber, 54, is emerging as one of the nation's most thoughtful advocates of making informal education intellectually demanding. By now she has trained some 100 teachers who are using informal techniques with about 2,700 kindergarten-through-fourth-graders in New York City public schools; she also has a Ford Foundation grant to train ten consultants to spread her methods. She has put her studies of similar British experiments into an expert new book, The English Infant School and Informal Education...
...before he migrated to New York City in 1959. Three years later he knocked out Middleweight Champion Gene Fullmer. By 1966 he had moved up a class and took the light heavyweight title from José Torres. After losing the title in 1968 Tiger periodically visited his home to train soldiers for the rebel Biafran army. Briefly employed as a museum guard in Manhattan, Tiger returned to Africa for good last July...
...came The Little Red Caboose (Golden Press), who resented the status of "the big black engine, puffing and chuffing" way up at the front of the train. But when the Little Red Caboose saves the train by slamming on its brakes on a hill, it is reconciled to an inferior status. Now we have Bill Feet's The Caboose Who Got Loose (Houghton Mifflin; $4.95). Not an "it" but a "she" longing to be liberated, Katy Caboose not only resents the "proud and powerful" male-chauvinist engine; she hates the noise and the jolting and the smoke, and longs...
...look, which Amtrak eventually plans to spread nationwide, is part of a campaign to make train travel comfortable and interesting again. Some earlier and more substantive improvements: easier to read timetables, and an experimental fare cut between New York and Boston...