Curriculum goals and methods for high school living areas
Prof Oktavet outlines sub goals for four living areas in high school curriculum development. He stresses vocational depth, social living aims such as government, psychology, legal processes, family roles, and leisure time skills. He notes environmental structuring of learning and advocates integrative methods like reading, writing, evaluation, and self-paced mastery.
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Oktavet
Wayne State University
Michigan
Maine fishing camp bill a New Englander’s blunt humor
A couple vacationing at a remote Maine lake camp encounter the host, a terse New Englander, who explains the rate and his policy. The tale includes a joke about charging locals $50 instead of the brochure price of $55, depending on guests' manners.
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Maine
Civilization
Vermont House rejecting state minimum beer price
Putney writes that he opposed raising beer and wine prices to a state minimum, arguing it protects large stores at the expense of customers and small shops, and warns of public subsidies and government overreach in business. He cites tax and monopoly concerns and criticizes compulsory prices and taxes.
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the Bucher
Vermont House of Representatives
Connecticut
Vermont
Burlington
Northeast Kingdom
Bennington
Electrical
Education board head urges arts and skills in schools
Arthur W. Hewitt, chairman of the state board of education, speaks at Bennington High School stressing the need for music art mechanics and home economics in curricula. The Bennington Post Office warns readers about illegal chain letters and a nationwide fad linked to six copies sent to six people.
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Arthur W. Hewitt
State Board of Education
Bennington High School
Nazi Germany
William H. Eddington
Bennington
Washington
Light and Asia Dim as War News Dwindles
UPI report from Hong Kong details growing isolation and danger for war correspondents covering Indochina. With 45 dead and 18 missing across Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, press access tightens as U.S. bases shift operations to Thailand and Saigon tightens information control. A looming end to American combat presence raises questions about who will report next.
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Vietnam
Laos
Cambodia
Clark Air Force Base
Philippines
U.S
Command Information Office
Saigon
Thailand
South Vietnam
U.S. Navy
Gulf of Tonkin
Pacific Fleet
Honolulu
Pacific
Subic Bay
Air Force
Bangkok
Pentagon
Arthur L. Higtee
UPI Saigon
Higbee
Washington
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Batiste Lastex
Vassar Edge
Yassar
Reader's Digest
Sky Diver
Oklahoma
Warth
Eekly
Putney
Pownal
Montpelier
Ring Book Indexes
Poly
Executive
Evans’ News Inc
Main Street Dial
Williamatown
Asia
UPI
By Daniel F. Gilmore
Hong Kong
Viet Tong
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International Commission For Control and Supervision
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