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...commitment, live for the teacher's approving "yes." It becomes so automatic, Holt writes, that when he selects a number between 1 and 10,000 and asks his students to pin it down by quizzing him, his own "no" to the student who asks if it is "be tween 5,000 and 10,000" brings groans, even though the no is as informative...
...industrial average had risen 16% so far this year, but still remained well below its alltime high of 995.15 on Feb. 9, 1966. In reaching its new peak, the New York Stock Exchange index has gained 22% this year. Standard & Poor's 500-stock index comes out be tween these two; it has risen 18%, to $94.04-within a whisker of its $94.58 record set last May 8. Over-the-counter stocks, as measured by the National Quotation Bureau's industrial average, have jumped 42% this year, and the American Stock Exchange's comprehensive index...
...approach of the June 30 fil- ing deadline for presidential candidates in South Viet Nam, the rivalry be tween Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu and Premier Nguyen Cao Ky intensified. U.S. diplomats alerted Washington that trouble was imminent. Rumors of coup and counter-coup coursed through Saigon: Vietnamese marines loyal to Ky were said to be headed for the capital; 20 truckloads of pro-Thieu troops were reported en route to the city. Though the rumors proved false, the nation had good reason to be upset. A break between Ky and Thieu could have split the armed forces into...
...first five months of 1967, North Korea committed 59 border violations, half of which resulted in clashes be tween patrols. Seven weeks ago, 60 North Korean and 40 Republic of Korea soldiers clashed and, for the first time since the armistice agreement in 1953, the R.O.K. forces had to use artillery fire to throw back the North Koreans. The North Koreans have also been infiltrating subversives and saboteurs into South Korea, about half of them by sea. They now have fast (40 knots), 60-ft. to 70-ft. boats, designed to look like fishing craft, that regularly land agents along...
...Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco's hangar-sized discotheque. Though modern jazz normally goes over with teen agers like a 9 p.m. curfew, Lloyd's passionate attack held them spellbound. Wrapping his gangling frame around his tenor saxophone, he explored the full range of the instrument, ricocheting be tween hoarse blats and urgent bleats, pouring out great churning whirlpools of sound. Dipping and bobbing as he played, he flew off on melodic tangents that were by turns coy and playful, ten der and savage. Then, taking up his flute, he turned philosopher, evoked the soft and misty moods...