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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grateful to TIME and Albert Shanker [Sept. 20] for telling us what is wrong with our public schools: "You walk into a classroom and you see the same teacher and the same blackboard you saw 20 years ago." Does this also apply to the same Professor Kittredge at the same old lectern at Harvard or to the same Professor Baker at the same old drama workshop at Yale in years past? When should a teacher be thrown on the scrap heap? Speaking as a teacher who is standing at the same old blackboard for the ninth year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 4, 1968 | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

...took heavy casualties in an ambush after ignoring a dog's warning. The shepherds have an uncanny knack for avoiding booby traps (apparently, their ears can pick up the tiny sound made by the breeze on a taut trip wire). One handler, Marine Sergeant Roy Jergins, says: "I walk where my dog walks, and I walk right through the booby traps." Mean sentry dogs who attack anyone but their handlers guard key U.S. installations. Tracker dogs, Labrador retrievers trained in Malaysia, are used to sniff out enemy withdrawal routes. After one recent ambush in III Corps, a tracker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: PURPLE GEESE & OTHER FIGHTING FAUNA | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

...speak, poor articulation, excessive sweating, weeping and urinary disorders were "strikingly improved," as were mental attitudes. Some patients who had been apathetic and vague showed an "awakening intellect" with better memory and alertness. Several who had not been able to get out of a wheelchair unaided or to walk without fall ing can now do both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neurology: L-Dopa for Parkinson's | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

Even modest improvement in severe cases may be lifesaving, Cotzias points out. One patient who for years had been unable to walk or talk, and hardly able to swallow, recovered sufficiently to walk with assistance, to feed himself, and occasionally to speak. This improvement lasted during the year that he spent at Brookhaven. He died in another hospital, from pneumonia caused by getting food in his lungs, after he had been without L-dopa for some time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neurology: L-Dopa for Parkinson's | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

...year-old left-hander had a shut-out going until the sixth inning when the Cards finally scored on a walk to Lou Brock, a single by Curt Flood and a bloop single by Orlando Cepeda...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 2nd in a Series: Tigers Win, 8-1 | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

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