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According to Conroy, the new Center will attempt "to fill in the great gap between the pure research groups and the activist groups" that deal with education...
Jazz and classical music, he emphasized, must themselves continue unchanged. The gap between them will have to be filled by a style of music that draws from both traditions, but which is essentially something...
...eyes too long to a mounting trade deficit that by year's end seemed certain to top $2 billion, almost equivalent to the gold reserves of the entire sterling bloc (see charts}. Theoretically, few economists quarreled with Wilson's first, stringent measures to close the gap: a "temporary" 15% tax on virtually all imports reaching Britain, plus tax incentives for British industrialists who boost exports. Practically, however, Wilson could hardly have acted more ineptly...
...Coach John McKay tried to buoy up his downhearted Trojans: "If we can score the first time we get the ball in the second half, it's a brand-new ball game." Upside Down. Southern Cal scored all right, striking 68 yds. in nine plays to cut the gap to 17-7. But it still seemed like the same old ball game. Time after time, Irish receivers broke into the clear to haul in Huarte's whistling passes...
...hopeful response to this knowledge gap is to put "culturally impoverished" children into prekindergartens at the age of four and pour the missing commonplaces into them. Working under near-laboratory conditions, New York City Psychologist Martin Deutsch pioneered teaching concepts for preschoolers; now Ford Foundation-sponsored projects are under way in Oakland, New Haven, New York, Boston, and eastern Pennsylvania. The U.S. Office of Education is backing an experiment in Kalamazoo, Mich., and the Johnson Foundation has financed a program in Racine, Wis. Farthest along of all is Baltimore's "Early School Admissions Project," supported by the city...