New York Plan Limits Reading Promotion in Schools
The New York City Board of Education bans promotion for pupils who fail in reading, citing links between reading delay and delinquency. The plan aims to help lagging readers with targeted tutoring and improved teaching methods while questioning potential drawbacks of universal promotion. Parents are urged to provide tutoring if possible.
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New York City
Board of Education
Robert Wagner
Children’s Court
New York
Youth House
Festive Horida Fashions By Susan Barden Rom Miami
Miami designer Susan Barden presents three cotton dresses with luxurious details to dramatize summer evenings. Frocks feature gingham, embroidery and trims, with pleated and full skirts, crosswise accents, and pastel passementerie scrolls for a glamorous look.
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Miami
Health tint windshields reduce night vision and detection distance
The Better Vision Institute warns pale green heat absorbing glass in windshields and sunglasses cuts nighttime vision. Detection distance drops 12 to 45 percent from 2,000 to 100 feet with a green windshield, and night sharpness falls from 20/20 to as low as 20/46. Tinted glasses also blur object distinction, making two items appear one until close.
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Better Vision Institute
Visi
Institute
New Ways To Serve Hot Breads
Modern breads are filled between slices and heated for quick serving. Swiss Loaf assembles with onion sauce and Swiss cheese, cinnamon orange loaf stacks butter sugar mix and bakes, and party rye toasties with Parmesan finish crisp in 400 F heat.
Syrup for Sweetening Iced Tea Adds Flavor and Energy
A home made syrup blends 1 cup sugar with water and chosen flavorings to sweeten iced tea. Suggested additions include mint, lemon, orange, lime, and cinnamon. The method outlines simmering, chilling, and straining for ready use.
Words of the Wise Prize of work worth doing
The quotation notes Theodore Roosevelt on life’s best prize being the chance to work hard at meaningful labor. It emphasizes diligence and purpose over mere luck.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Beauty Tips From A Sun Safe Page
Beauty bargains advise protection from sun hair damage with a beach hat or kerchief. Readers are urged to offset sun excess by adding baking soda borax or starch to baths for skin and hair care.
Chewy Brownies and Pecan Topped Veal Loaf
Instructions describe making chewy brownies with pecans pressed into batter and baked in a 325 F slow oven, yielding 18 squares. Also cover pressed veal loaf assembly with a fill of minced peppers and hard boiled eggs before final shaping and cooking.
Bedroom Color Schemes Shape Modern Home Decorating
Color drives bedroom design with bold tones replacing pastels and tinted linens rising to 35 percent of bed textiles. Experts stress matching hues to lifestyle and room exposure, noting bright rooms suit bright colors while dark spaces need light tones, and avoid clashing with a partner’s preferences.
ESTRELLITA Horoscope for the Day
This horoscope notes lunar aspects favor completing tasks and finishing matters. It highlights savings, afternoon trips, home entertaining, and group activities. It mentions romance, cautious finances in August and December, and a gifted child born today with strong family values.
Household Hint Auto Polish Restores Dull Plastic Surfaces
Auto polish improves brightness and color on scratched plastic sink tops counters and dinette tables. Apply generously with a clean soft cloth folded into a thick pad and rub in with full hand pressure in long even strokes, section by section.
Beauty Special Occasion Make Up Tips for Cinderella Nights
The piece advises women to use after dark makeup to enhance appeal under soft lighting. It covers cleansing for freshness and color, suggests ice friction for pale skin, recommends velvety or liquid foundations for dry or oily skin, and urges trying cream or liquid rouge, matching lipstick and nail polish, plus eye makeup for best effect.
Opportunities Unlimited A Candid Window on Ideas for Store Design
An overheard bus conversation reveals a shopper proposing department store window redesigns to manager Mr Jones. The piece suggests trying ideas as a store employee, gaining customer insight, and testing suggestions before presenting practical, marketable changes.
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Blank’s Department Store
Jones
Banana Conversion Guide for Cup Measurements
A guide on fruit quantities notes that 1 cup diced or sliced bananas requires about 143 bananas, while 1 cup mashed bananas uses about 2 large bananas. It also mentions that typical banana weight is three bananas per pound.
It Won t Be the First Tree House in Our Yard
A local quick sketch describes a large backyard tree with rope swings and a planned tree house. Buddy and neighborhood boys plan to sleep overnight up there, while the narrator notes rusted nails and signs of past tree rooms.
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Buddy
John
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