Word: united
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaston did a fine job in Lonsner's place for the second half against Penn. With Ravenel still out, junior Ted Halaby, who has led the team to three straight wins, will be at quarterback, with McIntyre, Repsher and Nelson running with him in the first backfield unit...
...stolen (there is krypton in all air), and scientists believe that their length, which is determined by the properties of the krypton 86 atom, will never change at all. Anyone with the proper equipment (present cost about $100,000) can reproduce, even a million years from now, the standard unit of length adopted in 1960. By use of an interferometer-an optical device that counts wave lengths and fractions of them-the new light standard gives measurements accurate to one part in 100 million. This, think the metrologists, should suffice for quite a while...
Instead of liberating young minds, argues Educator Hansen. this method often imprisons them. When science is cloaked in a "home unit," it may get stuck at the doorbell-and never reach the principles of electricity. Says Hansen: "One is inclined to be interested in what one knows. Children want still more of the American Indian because that is what they know. This is not helping them to learn...
Teaching & Thinking. Unlike all-out progressive educators, Hansen refuses to "leave learning to chance." Though Ami-don's youngsters will get plenty of "experience-centered activities," they will not be "lost in a hodgepodge of unit teaching." Reading begins with phonics in first grade and formal grammar starts in fourth grade (two years earlier than in most U.S. schools). Writing is heavily emphasized because it "improves and refines thinking"-and the same goes for math and science. More outrageous yet by progressive standards, geography focuses on specific places, and U.S. history is taught in chronological order "to develop...
...himself during World War II and spent two years in a Vichy prison after he mistook an enemy for a De Gaulle man. So Boulle knows the background of his latest non-hero, Lieut. Cousin, an intellectual, successful novelist and critic, who has delusions of heroism even as his unit is put to rout by the Germans. Running away, he still sees himself stemming the retreat, and when he reaches England in a small boat, he has no trouble seeing himself as an intelligence man who can confound the enemy. His boss, a psychiatrist in civilian life, gives...