Word: laggards
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...plan places an extra burden on the teachers. They must make absolutely sure that the laggard student has no emotional or mental block, that every effort is made to save him, and that he has the right of appeal. But for all that, the plan works. Of those expelled, more than half have returned, and most are doing well. Joyce, for instance, has so far this year earned one H (the highest mark given), two As, three Bs. Moreover, says Superintendent Warren, "achievement scores on twelfth grade examinations have gone up. It has become respectable in Calgary...
...golf green to insure accurate putting. The Rhode Island League of Salt Water Anglers protested to President Eisenhower. Democratic Senator Richard L. Neuberger protested to the Senate. But the vice chairman of the city council at Newport, R.I., where Ike will go for a vacation as soon as a laggard Congress lets him, snorted "perfectly ridiculous" and went right on throwing tasty bits of chopped fish into the ocean every day, so that when the President drops a line at the chummed spots, striped bass will be waiting...
...Coca, his original mate on Your Show of Shows, and in a tear-choked chat won her consent to their TV reunion; 2) he called NBC, which he left in a huff in May because the network could find no sponsors for the costly ($110,000 a week), rating-laggard Caesar's Hour, TV's best comedy show. Subdued, after almost two months of contemplating a new season without him, Caesar offered to render unto NBC a "reasonably" priced half-hour series with the old team of Caesar and Coca. The network hopefully set about trying...
...part of the Harvard experience which especially tries the student. Lecturers and section men cannot ruin most of this material; the laggard student fools only himself with that excuse. Here the freshman is first put to the test of how well he will use a Harvard education--the test of whether he can bring some enthusiasm of his own to a book, instead of expecting the book, and a Ph.D. explicator, to do everything...
...Worse. Oddly enough, Europe was less upset than the U.S. itself over the industry's laggard performance. Though oil stocks dwindled daily, Britain and the Continent were cheered by prospects of warmer weather and an early reopening of the Suez Canal. But as matters stood last week, the oil lift across the Atlantic seemed to be going from bad to worse. In seven days the U.S. averaged shipments of only 454,000 bbl. of petroleum products to Europe, of which barely 183,000 bbl. daily were crude oil, far below the figure of 500,000 bbl. daily...