Reading controversy splits Urbana Champaign over phonics vs whole word
In Champaign and Urbana two six year olds show contrasting reading paths on their 26th school day. Geoffrey learns letter sounds in Champaign with Phonetic Keys to Reading while Marian in Urbana follows a look say program with a 326 word Urbana vocab. The piece contrasts phonics emphasis and sight word focus in the two districts.
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Champaign-Urbana, Ill
Geoffrey
Miss Hyde
Marian
Champaign
Urbana
Wright Street
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Colonel Wolfe
Hollywood Bounty Replica Sails Again On Publicity Tour
The HMS Bounty replica built by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cruises from Philadelphia toward the Chesapeake Canal on a two year, 40000 mile publicity tour. Captain Ellsworth Coggins, a retired Canadian commander, leads a crew of Nova Scotian sailors aboard the $750000 set with modern comforts.
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Radio schedules and word study note end with Greece GDP fact
The page lists radio station lifelines from 5 A.M. to midnight and enemy alert procedures. It then reports on a school exercise comparing Urbana Champaign reading two syllable words with phonetic cues. The excerpt closes noting Greece's national income from agriculture at about one third.
Second graders race to read basics in two cities
A passage describes a boy named Geoffrey solving a word on a page and reading words such as tea, tie, ate, it, and toe. It notes Marian lagging but likely to catch up, prompting visits to two top reading groups in nearby classrooms to study their methods.
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Marian
Geoffrey
Nuclear Age Course Laid
AP correspondent John M. Hightower notes Kennedy’s Cuban crisis set new international law precedents with naval blockade and aerial surveillance. The confrontation between nuclear powers underscored restraint and power dynamics shaping future global behavior and the perception that big nations legislate norms.
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Washington
Kennedy
United States
Soviet Union
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