Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Right now, for example, we are distributing a bibliography on Negro Americans; coming soon are background studies-"TIME Guides"-to the U.S. Cabinet, space and Africa. Along with TIME itself, the Current Affairs Test, a Vacation Review Quiz, a Year-End Review in May, plus occasional maps and wall charts, they add up to a comprehensive and stimulating program designed to bring today's world into the classrooms...
When John V. Lindsay became Mayor of New York City on January 1, the strike deadline laid down by the Transport Workers was only five hours away and negotiations had already been broken off. Twelve days later, Wall Street businessmen are still bitch-hiking to work, and garment center laborers aren't getting to their jobs...
...change that the tutors had not even mentioned: the installation of junior general examinations. The irrelevance of output to input gave the episode a slightly comic flavor, as though the reformers had slammed a door at one end of a room and a picture had fallen off the wall at the other...
Benefiting from Research. Because Syntex's stock has been so volatile, some Wall Streeters have been skeptical of the firm's future once the pill boom lags. But only about 20% of the U.S. women who could use the pills now do so, and most of the overseas market has barely been tapped. Moreover, Syntex's research in hormones and nucleic acids is right where major new-drug discoveries are most likely to come. Even now, Syntex is benefiting from its research. Its earnings in the latest quarter jumped 236% (to $5.9 million) and sales climbed...
...then there was a Ranger named Ray ("Pinochle") Miller. When captured by Mexican bandits who decided "to 'dobe-wall him," he shot the firing squad with a camera before it could shoot him with bullets. Flattered and fascinated, the bandits began posing for photographs and drinking straight shots of sotol, a distillation of yucca that makes tequila seem like celery tonic. When they were suitably swacked, Sergeant Miller took a flying leap to the nearest horse and "hit the Rio Grande so hard he knocked it dry for 50 feet." He left his camera behind. No matter. No film...