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...program will be launched to provide year-round preschool instruction and medical help for four-and five-year-olds; a similar project, designed to help "culturally deprived" high-schoolers prepare for college, will be organized on a summertime schedule...
...soon felt that the local press was either disregarding their work or utterly distorting it. In desperation, two Harvard Crimson staffers-Peter Cummings and Ellen Lake-started mimeographing sheets of news and passing them around. This summer they decided to put out a paper on a permanent, year-round basis...
Nehru's Heart. Everything about the Kashmir problem is deeply emotional. The land itself produces little but scenery. Kashmir's mountain rim is so impenetrable that there is only one year-round road to the outside world?and it goes to Pakistan. Nehru was determined to keep Kashmir because it was his ancestral home and, as he put it, "a piece of my heart...
...proper amount of fluoridation varies with the climate, which in turn influences the amount of water that people drink. One part per million is close to ideal for a place with an average year-round temperature about 60°F. In colder climes it can well go up to 1.2 p.p.m. (as in Joliet, Ill., with an annual average temperature of 50°); in warmer places, where people drink more it should be kept down around 0.7 p.p.m...
...recent years, however, year-round reading habits have changed. "People don't read many light books any more," says a Beverly Hills bookdealer. "These are not light times." Seasonal froth still abounds, but more vacationers nowadays tend to ballast their bags with classics or important current books. Main reason for the shift is that the heightened pressures of business, community and social life leave less and less opportunity for serious reading during the workaday year. Reading has become a game of guilt. Wrote Walter Kerr in The Decline of Pleasure: "We are all of us compelled to read...