Word: warded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...share technological insights and applications with other chip fanatics. Computerniks have already formed some 400 informal clubs, and these are growing rapidly. Electronic stores are proliferating like fast-(brain)food outlets. They, too, operate as semi-clubs, where employees are as interested in yakking as in selling. Even Montgomery Ward now offers, for $399, a home computer...
Critics of the bilingual experiment contend that the movement is often more political than educational, with Spanish-surnamed children segregated in separate classes long after they can handle lessons conducted in English. "We fully recognize the benefits of cultural pluralism," says James Ward of the American Federation of Teachers. "But we must be sure that the central effort is to bring students into the mainstream of American life." Some foreign-born parents share his concern. Manuel Llera, principal of a junior high school in California's Sweetwater Union school district, near the Mexican border, has been forced by parental pressure...
...loutish American officers obsessed with body counts and South Vietnamese preoccupied with heroin smuggling. The good guys are the Marines in Company C, all of whom, apparently, fought the war against their will. The Vietnamese peasants are represented by picturesque extras who seem to be refugees from a way ward road company of Flower Drum Song...
Played with appropriate panache by Stuart Wilson, he is a handsome figure of dash and romance, the highest flier of a high-living crowd. "I feel like a starving man when someone gives him food," is the way Anna describes her feelings to ward...
Goalie: Chris Ward (Cornell...