New Gibbs School Trains Women for Management Roles
Katharine Gibbs Schools market a new management track for women joining the corporate world. The program targets female graduates seeking leadership training, with some observers seeing corporate pushback against sex discrimination laws. Independent suits and a Gibbs seminar with female executives point to cautious progress amid ongoing legal actions and feminist protests.
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Heloise tips on disposing of a Christmas tree
Reader offers practical steps for clearing a Christmas tree after holidays. Use newspapers to catch debris, trim branches with pruning shears, remove lights, bag branches for the fireplace, burn one branch at a time, and cut the trunk for further fire use, then tidy debris from the newspapers.
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Abby Advice on a Professional Man and Social Grievances
Abby counsels a wife on her husband’s alleged sexual relations with a patient and urges treatment and nonseparation if rehabilitated. The column also recaps reader questions on thank you notes, bragging about possessions, and a definition of maturity from a past St Louis audience.
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Schools Give Up Too Soon Educator Says
Jerome Kagan cites a Guatemalan village study to argue that American children’s mental development is more plastic than thought and that schools must stress arts and cooperative hands-on work. He says slum children, though intelligent, are deemed dumb due to reading gaps.
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