Word: view
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anybody with enough education credits can teach anything, in the view of some school administrators. All too often, charges Donald R. Tuttle. professor of English at Cleveland's Fenn College, the rule for teachers of English becomes simply, "Anybody who speaks English can teach it." Result, according to Tuttle: only a third of the English teachers in U.S. secondary schools have studied their subject extensively, and another third is "seriously underprepared...
Rods In. War's end brought Scientist Lawrence a new role as an elder science statesman. He advised the Government on atomic energy, served on numerous missions, received a long string of honors. Lawrence was one of the U.S. scientists who backed the AEC view that fallout from nuclear-weapon testing is not critically dangerous. Last year he backed continued U.S. nuclear testing in a report to President Eisenhower that H-bombs can be made 96% "cleaner." The Radiation Laboratory flourished under his direction, built a bevatron for advanced particle research. Lawrence became chiefly an organizer, a humorous, vigorous...
...Beuningen heirs, will house it in the city's Boymans Museum, where old D.G., who called it. "my museum," kept his largest canvases. In return for the bargain price, the Van Beuningen heirs set a few conditions: the collection must not be resold, it must be on permanent view, it must be clearly labeled as coming from...
...General Motors' Fisher Body plants were shut down, and some 7,000 workers walked out of a Pontiac assembly plant the same day that Pontiac's 1959 models were put on view. Said G.M. Vice President and Top Negotiator Louis G. Seaton: "The hit-run guerrilla warfare has the obvious goal of crippling 1959 automobile production." Nevertheless, the companies refused to budge from a firm no to union demands...
Lessening the Pressure. Some world bankers were skeptical of such a fund when first proposed because it smacked too much of funny money. But more of them have been coming round to the view that such a fund is necessary to finance vitally needed development programs that the bank cannot back because they contain individual projects that will not pay off. With the proposed new fund, the bank, for example, could finance a dam, while the IDA could finance nonself-liquidating projects needed to develop the area around the dam. One big point in IDA's favor: it would...