Reading Rooms Turn Textbooks Into Lifelines for Youth
Daniel Fader develops a new reading method at Michigan State Correctional School using 1200 paperback titles chosen by staff. Students pick two books, write without fear, and copy from magazines if needed. results show doubled reading progress versus peers. The movement spreads to other cities with government interest.
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Fader
W. J. Maxey Boys’ Training School
Detroit
Ivan Ludington
Kilmer Job Corps Center
New Jersey
Reader's Digest Highlights Auto Theft Costs And Lincoln Beard Tale
Reader's Digest reports auto theft costs about half a billion dollars yearly, with 650,000 cars stolen in 1967 and a projected toll near one million by 1970. It also cites Lincoln's beard tale sparked by Grace Bedell and notes equal intelligence in men and women with different strengths.
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Reader’s Digest
Abraham Lincoln
Westfield
N.Y
Grace Bedell
Lincoln
Grace
Springfield
David Wolper
Forerunner of progress: hope drives frontier exploration
Thomas Watson of International Business Machines Corp speaks on hope guiding progress. He notes history is made by people who overcome fear and pursue hopeful aims as they cross new frontiers.
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Thomas “Watson
International’ Business Machines Corp
Phrase of the People Dynamic Across History
The article traces claims about the famous phrase of the people in governance. It notes repeated attributions to Lincoln and others while highlighting earlier precedents from John Wycliffe. It suggests the phrase predates the Gettysburg Address and appeared in various forms across centuries.
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Lincoln
Daniel Webster
Theodore Parker
William Herndon
Parker
John Wycliffe
England
Soviet Nuclear Lead By 1969 Seen Blamed on Defense Policies
A trio of eminent analysts warn the United States could trail the Soviet Union in explosive power by 1969 and trail badly by 1971. They blame Defense Department policies for stalling high risk, high payoff weapons and slowing new ICBM and ABM programs.
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Defense Dept
United States
Soviet Union
America
Bernard A. Schriever
Defense Department
John Hubbell
Hubbell
William Kintner
U.S
Red China
Russia
U.S.S.R
Harold Agnew
Atomic Energy Commission
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
U. S
Why Not Take Biology Why Not Take Biology
This spring offers Biology 125 with no prerequisite. It covers energy in organisms, photosynthesis, metabolism, physiology, behavior, and ecology and their interrelations with the environment. Check with your advisor about enrolling this term for a living course.
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