Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weekend and tape them. Each day of the week he would have an assistant set the recorder up in the classroom. The professor, of course, was delighted at the system which afforded him much free time. After his taped lectures had been playing for several months, he decided to visit one of his classes himself. As he opened the door he saw his recorder on the front desk, merrily lecturing to 65 small tape recorders, one on each desk of the deserted classroom...
...first visit to Moscow, in August, Rademaekers was assigned by Intourist to a spacious room in the Rossia Hotel. The view included St. Basil's Cathedral and the famed chime bells of the Spasskaya clock tower in the Kremlin Wall. "Like other Americans there," he recalls, "I did not complain, and I spent money, which is highly regarded by Intourist." Less than two months later, Rademaekers, while in Paris, applied for another Soviet visa and bought his Intourist coupons through a French travel agency. Thus began an amusing case of confused identity...
From 1962 to 1965, Chall used a $14,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation to reanalyze data from 67 major studies on reading, to visit over 300 classrooms, and to interview proponents of various theories on the teaching of reading. She concluded that children learn to read better when taught by a "decoding method.'- on which emphasizes learning the alphabet and breaking the codes of written words in their first few years of instruction...
...days later, in Crete, I go to visit a young girl, an American-educated friend from previous trips. At the travel bureau where she works they tell me she is out of town. On vacation? No, not exactly. She's gone to Chania. When is she expected back? Well (whisper), you see, she is in jail. She took part in a demonstration in support of Papandreou and against the Junta on the day of the coup. The prosecutor demanded six months on parole. The court-martial meted out three years in jail. This is how it always happens these days...
William P. Bundy, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, will replace Rusk at the foreign affairs conference to be held in the Somerset Hotel in Boston. He will not visit Harvard...