Word: falling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Courses. Roberts has not neglected quality control altogether. Marginal students get stiff tutoring, and most of them have done well. Of 86 flunkees imported last fall from other schools, all but eight averaged C or better, and four got straight A's. Like any shrewd businessman, Roberts has also eliminated unprofitable branches: 400 courses have been cut to 169, and it is no longer possible to major in art or music or study creative writing...
...kids loved it. "It's not drudgery or boredom to them," said one delighted mother. But last fall came trouble: a visit by a lady inspector from the State Department of Social Welfare, which regulates all California day nurseries on the theory that they are not educational establishments. A "play school" devotee, the inspector expressed shock at Melody Workshop's "regimentation." She ordered the school closed, cited technical violations, e.g., the inadequacy of play space. No sooner had Mrs. Joralemon measured her play space (and found more than enough to meet the law) than she was charged with...
...that summer is typically the slack season for business expansion, and that U.S. businessmen are traditionally hesitant about making business decisions in an election year. As a so-so third quarter draws toward a close, most businessmen and economists still look for the economy to turn up in the fall...
CORVAIR COMPACT BUS will be introduced by Chevrolet this fall to compete with Volkswagen's junior-sized bus, selling at the rate of 36,000 annually in U.S. this year. To be called the Greenbrier, the six-cylinder Chevrolet bus will closely resemble the Volkswagen in appearance, sell for about...
...Overdue for a Fall." It is not lack of land that has sent land prices sprinting ahead of the rest of the U.S. economy. Higher prices are mostly created by real estate speculators who hold on to great tracts of choice land in the hope that future demand will bring even higher profits. The speculators may be in for a shock. Historically, land prices go up and down in bigger and wilder swings than any other prices in the economy. They are "now overdue for a fall," says HOUSE & HOME. "Suburban land will sell for much less before it sells...