Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Lackawanna Railroad's crack Phoebe Snow pulled out of Hoboken and roared west last week, a private Pullman car was attached to the rear, with a party of eight elderly Negroes aboard. The leader and bill payer of the group was a tall, spare man, duded up in a blinding sports shirt and necktie, a sharp-lapelled suit, jaunty Ivy League cap and high-button shoes. He was no potentate from Africa, but William Tyler, 78, a retired Pullman porter, and he was relishing the fulfillment of a lifetime dream...
...time in seminars, 80% in the conventional classroom, 10% in large lecture-discussions. With team teaching and an adviser for every 20 students, each student will be encouraged to go as far as he can in each field. A bright youngster may pick up broad principles in group discussions, carry them further in seminars, use the "resource areas" to dig in on his own, and wind up with advanced standing in college...
...Volcano Ranch, 20 miles west of Albuquerque, a group of 19 small, coop-like structures covers a grassy, mile-wide plain. Inside each coop are four disks, each one meter across and wrapped in black plastic. From the disks, cables run to a central building crammed with oscilloscopes and other delicate gear. Last week the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, institutional proprietor of all this apparatus, announced that it has detected a cosmic ray (high-speed particle) that came to the earth from a foreign galaxy millions of light years away in the far depths of space. This was eye-opening...
From the Commerce Department came some disquieting news: according to the latest figures (July), manufacturers as a group have stopped adding to inventories...
...Ebenezer, the appointment is a chance to "leap astride life"; it actually amounts to an invitation to disaster: a group of insurrectionists mistake Ebenezer for a secret agent of Baltimore's and all but succeed in a plot to murder him. Enroute to America he loses his commission, falls into the hands of pirates and is forced to walk the plank. Miraculously, he makes his way to shore, where he encounters a drug-ravaged hag who turns out to be the girl of his dreams-a former London prostitute named Joan Toast. Shaken by all this, Ebenezer innocently signs...