Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JEREMY S. WOOD Upper Montclair...
...have been trying to figure out why the U.S.S.R. has slowly but surely been getting the upper hand in world leadership. Your June 2 cover story on Soviet Scientist Xesmeyanov helped me a lot in this respect. In the same issue, however, two photographs gave me a possible clue. One showed five U.S. Governors bowling with pineapples and coconuts, the other showed fifth-graders ''playing" at biology in Leningrad...
...weekends Sylvia and her husband shuttle up to an exurbanite home complete with swimming pool in upper Westchester County: "I don't put on a girdle until Monday." But every Monday Sylvia returns to an apartment on lower Fifth Avenue and to her office at the Post, where-puffing Philip Morris cigarettes and rattling off her sentences at a deadline-racing clip-she delights in making as many dollars and as much sense as she can out of the clutter of financial facts...
...Mathematics programs have also undergone revisions, with a particularly strong emphasis on biology and natural history courses and a new advanced math courses giving a solid introduction to calculus. There has been a particularly large demand recently for the Physics and Chemistry courses which are electives in the upper two classes, and the teaching of these subjects is now being brought up to date with the assistance of an M.I.T. science teaching program. But this does not mean that the school feels an increased need to push all students ahead in the sciences. One math teacher observes that only...
...William A. Wirt, who instituted a "work-study-play" program designed for mill workers' children. According to Roser, the Wirt System "was partially an attempt to meet the needs of a rapidly expanding population, with minimum building facilities, and partially a revolt against the typical 'Latin School' type of upper class education." The inclusion of extracurricular activities during the school day for credit was an integral feature of the system...