Word: warrener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hack to death a shopkeeper and a liquor-store clerk. Last week an off-duty policeman named James Kitchell pushed a hand under an icehouse half a block from the scene of the murders, and pulled out a bloody butcher knife. Kitchell rushed to his boss. Police Chief Warren Norman, with the killer's weapon and an idea of his own: instead of calling the usual press conference, why not put the knife back and ask the town's newsmen to cooperate in a ruse? Springfield's two TV stations, two newspapers and four radio stations agreed...
...Calgary, the Joyces of the classroom are known as "homesteaders"-able Canadian students who refuse to work. By 1954 they had become so numerous that mild-mannered Superintendent Robert Warren decided that something drastic would have to be done. He consulted his school board, finally put through the now famous Calgary Plan. In 1955 only ten shirkers were dropped. But as the plan became more firmly established, the number rose...
...that he has the right of appeal. But for all that, the plan works. Of those expelled, more than half have returned, and most are doing well. Joyce, for instance, has so far this year earned one H (the highest mark given), two As, three Bs. Moreover, says Superintendent Warren, "achievement scores on twelfth grade examinations have gone up. It has become respectable in Calgary to be a serious student...
...last week down in North Attleboro, Mass, letters went out to parents spelling out a new policy by which "intellectual loafers and bench warmers" are being dropped. At a time of rising costs and the growing teacher shortage, the plan has its appeal. Says Calgary's Superintendent Warren: "In 1955 Calgary spent $344.29 on each high school pupil. The public cannot afford to provide such service to pupils who take an indifferent attitude toward their responsibilities...
...responsible kids, Rocket Fuel Expert Francis Warren of the Southwest Research Institute has some useful...