Shoddy Goods Spark Debate in Soviet Trade System
William L. Ryan reports from Moscow on rising consumer demand for quality and the creeping intrusion of capitalist methods into Soviet retail. Installment buying, advertising and sale prices illuminate a shift as shoppers hoard rubles for better goods while authorities balance dogma and reform efforts. The piece traces Khrushchev's cautious approach amid a growing middle-class mindset.
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System Goes Past Just Scholarship New Rating Plan for Students
KU education dean Kenneth E. Anderson and Tilghman Riley propose a self rating test for high school seniors that correlates intellectual curiosity and persistence with National Merit scores. A 1959 Kansas study of 4 700 students found higher self assessments linked to stronger merit results, prompting further validity checks with college grades.
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Five murdered in Chicago in kitchen knife spree
In Chicago a man named Rosita Hernandez remains unnamed in reports and a woman Maria Gomez Hernandez and her three children were stabbed to death. Police say jealousy and shame fueled the killings and an 11 inch butcher knife was found in Hernandez belt during his arrest. Raimundo Perez Hernandez 35 admitted the slayings saying jealousy drove him after his common law wife left him. The victims include a woman a man and three young children.
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