Word: metered
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Ignoring such "barriers" as rhyme and meter, Koch emphasized repetition, which is more natural to children. More important, he got the children to express their "secret feelings, their fantasies-turning them on to their imaginations." As he puts it: "There are lots of kids who have never been praised for saying the sky is purple." His first success came when he asked the class to begin each line with the words "I wish . . ." When Koch read their wish poems aloud, the children began waving, blushing, laughing and jumping up and down. Koch recalls: "It was the first time they realized...
Despite the mediocrity of most performances, there were a few bright spots. Dave Silver was the winner in the optional one-meter diving with 236.20 points on five dives. His nearest competitor was Brown's Rick Wiley with 145.15. Brown has no three-meter board on which to practice, so there can be no competition from the high board in its meets...
...Crimson's other winners were Bob Lawton in the medley (2:10.5), Dick Eisenberg in the required one-meter dive (153.20), John Burris in the backstroke (2:13.0), and Dave Strauss in the breaststroke (2:26.6). The freestyle relay team also...
STEVE VAN METER BOB HODIERNE Chicopee, Mass...
Died. Jacob Blaustein, 78, founder of the American Oil Co. and former president of the American Jewish Committee; in Baltimore. With his father, Blaustein set up the first drive-in gas station in 1915, devised the first pump with a meter that read in dollars and cents, and introduced the first antiknock fuel (it powered Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis to Europe in 1927). As a Jewish activist, Blaustein played a major role in persuading David Ben-Gurion to accept the U.N. plan to partition Palestine in 1948, and in negotiations with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer...