Speed Reading Test Highlights Readers Pace and Perception
A Time test at Long Beach City College with instructor Ruth Purdy shows the reporter reading about 450 words per minute yet recalling details well. The piece notes lessons from the How to Read Faster series and reflects on concentration versus memory in speed reading.
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Long Beach City College
Ruth 5. Purdy
City College
Business and Technology
Press-Telegram
Irs
Purdy
Trotsky Killer Denied Parole in Mexico
The interior ministry refused to parole Jacques Mornard who killed Leon Trotsky in 1940. Doctors warned he remains potentially dangerous and a judge said parole enforcement would be virtually impossible. Mornard plans to appeal the ruling.
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Mexico City
Interior Ministry
Jacques Mornard
Leon Trotsky
Mornard
Man Killed While Teaching Wife to Use Shotgun
In Phillipsburg Colorado a 24-year-old husband, William Welden, was killed when a 12 gauge shotgun discharged as he demonstrated its use to his wife. County officers said the blast struck him in the chest and killed him instantly.
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Phillipsburg
Colo. P
Jefferson
William Welden
Panamanian Slaying Probe Moves Forward After Court Ruling
A three man National Assembly commission pushes ahead with investigation into ex President Jose Ramon Guizado's alleged involvement in the killing of President Jose Antonio Remon. The court ruled the assembly trials presidents for pre and post office offenses, with a 10 day recommendation deadline.
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Panama
Supreme Court
National Assembly
Jose Ramon Guizado
Jose Antonio Remon
Assembly
Guizado
Guizada
Ruben Miro
Remon
Miro
Two Airmen Die and Four Hurt in Andes Crash
MEDELLIN Colombia reports indicate two airmen were killed and four injured when an Air Force amphibian crashed near Jardin while searching for missing oilman G Rockwell and his wife. Rescue teams from Albrook Air Force Base dispatched ambulance medical aid and a flight surgeon, with another amphibian diverted to Medellin.
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Medellin
Colombia
U. S
U. S. Air Force
Jtsr
Andes
Albrook Air Force Base
Panama
Rockwell
Houston
Tex
Albrook
Jardin
Erat Pe Aeroe
Diphtheria Toll Falls in Minabad Village Iran
Twenty five children have died in a diphtheria epidemic in Minabad village near the Soviet Iranian border, according to Keyhan parts.
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Tehran
Iran
Minabad
Keyhan
Costa Rica Reacts as U S Planes Head to Front Line
In Costa Rica, two U S Navy plane P 51 Mustangs joined four delivered Monday and moved toward the Santa Rosa front where loyalist forces clash with rebels. Inter-American observers move toward the Nicaraguan frontier as fighting marks the eighth day of the rebellion.
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San Jose
Costa Rica
Santa Rosa
United States
U. S
Nicaragua
Jose Figueres
la Cruz
Nicas
Organization of Americanjragua
Limon
Rica
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