Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case is another Illinois Republican, Rep. Paul Findley, who has just written a book about Lincoln's years in Congress. He discovered the details of Lincoln's padded expense account in muckraking stories written at the time by Horace ("Go West, young man!") Greeley of the New York Tribune. Findley is less than outraged by Honest Abe's exaggerations. He points out that the future President only earned $4 a day for his service in the House...
...there, or twice as many as last year. Hardy souls in Boston don wet suits and climb aboard their boards as soon as the ice breaks on the Charles River, and during the Fourth of July festivities, half a dozen wind-surfers participated in a race through New York harbor. Wind-surfing championships will be held this fall in Clearwater, Fla., with competition in such categories as slalom-type racing, freestyle, long-distance (up to 15 miles) and buoy ball (a kind of water rugby). For those more inclined toward the social aspects of the sport, there are more than...
...conversion of biomass into energy has been increasing even without Government help. Power plants in many cities, including New York, Chicago and Milwaukee, burn garbage to produce electricity, and more and more grain, sugar cane, wood wastes and other residues are being fermented into alcohol fuels...
...York has scheduled a stiff high school graduation competency requirement for 1981 seniors, but there was more concern in the Empire State last week about another kind of testing-admissions exams for colleges and graduate schools. The issue: Should the questions and answers on these exams, which are traditionally wrapped in secrecy, be released for public scrutiny? Yes, said New York's Governor Hugh Carey, who signed a state law requiring that, as of next Jan. 1, the tests be made public 30 days after students learn the results. No, said most of the national testing groups, including...
...question SAT; some 21 different versions of the SAT are used annually. As long as copies of the test are hidden away in the files of ETS, they can be reused for approximately three years. "But," notes Cameron, "once you disclose a test, it must be discarded." New York's new law will force makers of standardized tests to offer new examinations throughout the U.S., for once the cat gets out of the bag in New York, test makers must assume it will slink across state lines...