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...ground invasion of southern Laos ended yesterday, but in Washington the verbal struggle to transform the abortive Laos incursion into some kind of victory continues unabated...

Author: By David I. Bruck, | Title: Laos Post-Mortem: Error Of Vietnamization Is Clear | 3/26/1971 | See Source »

...most high school graduates could answer "four" in a flash, it was not so easy for 13 black laborers in North Carolina who wanted the Duke Power Co. to promote them to coal handlers. In fact, the company insisted that they take a general intelligence test full of verbal and mathematical puzzles. The men scored low and remained where they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Flunking Job Tests | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

...sitting around in San Francisco with "nothin' to do" when a candy-striped package appears in his room. Unwrapped, it becomes a tollbooth; when he drives his kiddie car through it, he becomes part of a cartoon interpretation of C.P. Snow's Two Cultures. Head of the Verbal World is King Azaz; his dreaded brother and rival, the Mathemagician, is "Ruler of Numbers." A series of adventures eventually earns Milo the role of peacemaker: he rescues the maidens Rhyme and Reason from a castle prison, thereby eliminating the sibling rivalry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oz Revisited | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

Taking the SAT scores-Radcliffe admits a slightly higher percentage of high scorers on both the verbal and mathematics scales-the study concludes that using just the verbal score, the numbers of women admitted would increase somewhat, and using the mathematical scale, the number of men admitted would increase somewhat...

Author: By Carol R. Sternhell, | Title: Admissions Study Denies Masculine Bias | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

...would be best to split it up among everyone. The girl agreed, but still added, "I get the most." Moffett advocates the formation of small groups of students like this to read, discuss and improvise among themselves. The desire to interact with peers provides the motivation to increased verbal ability and solve language problems. It also continually tests the effectiveness of a student's expression; if he is successful his peers will understand...

Author: By Gilbert B. Kaplan, | Title: Verbal Thinking: How Can I Tell You? | 3/6/1971 | See Source »

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