Word: working
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campus life; unrealistic ideas tend to flourish in isolation from society. To help overcome this, an attempt is being made to bring the outside world into the world of studies, to expose a student to a career without harnessing him to it. Already 136 colleges and universities have instituted work-studies programs that provide undergraduates with a taste of a career ahead of time...
When a 163-ton abstract metal sculpture by Pablo Picasso was unveiled in the plaza of Chicago's Civic Center two years ago, one official was outraged. Describing the work as a "rusting junk heap," Alderman John Hoellen demanded in a resolution to the city council that it be dismantled. In all seriousness, he suggested replacing it with a 50-ft. statue of that modern folk hero and living symbol of a "vibrant city": Chicago Cub Infielder Ernie Banks...
...lecture. Hoppe gets his ideas for five columns a week, he says, by "reading through the paper until I come to an item that I don't understand-then I explain it to everybody. That's how David Lawrence and the rest of us columnists always work...
Dike Protection. Not everyone believes that such an airport would work...
With irrational finality, your child insists that his soup is too salty, his home work too hard. What should a parent do? Easy, answers Psychologist Haim Ginott. Just keep cool and coo some thing sympathetic, like "Oh, it's too salty for you. I wish we had something else," and "Yes, you do have a lot of homework." Chances are the child will eat the soup after all and resolutely go off to study...