Word: press
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...White House conference, delegates saw a film about a highly successful program set up by Bronfenbrenner's colleague, David Goslin, of the Russell Sage Foundation. It showed children from the Detroit public-school system spending three days at the Detroit Free Press, learning to relate to the newspapermen and what they were doing, and saying things like "You know, in school you learn a subject, but here you meet people...
...gold mine of letters, manuscripts and rare color engravings. Beethoven was one of the great creative agonizers of all time. The evidence lies in a marvelous new facsimile of his sketchbooks, circa 1786 to 1799, just published by the British Museum for distribution in the U.S. by Columbia University Press (two volumes...
...most of the students, Jan. 28 will bring what amounts to the final exam. That is when the 26 teams that constitute the National Football League will meet to select their draft choices, and the pros are nothing if not thorough in casing the prospects. College records, glowing press clippings, gaudy trophies mean nothing in themselves. All that counts is a player's potential for prospering in the brutal world of pro football-a survival test that is measured in size, speed, strength and skill, plus a certain intangible that pro coaches like to call "desire." That...
...they say that 3%, or perhaps a bit more, would represent price stability. Until lately, Administration officers have defined "full employment" as a 4% rate of joblessness. Recently they began talking of getting down to "the 4% zone," and at his last press conference, Nixon implied that anything "lower than 5%" would be a commendable showing...
...WORLD OF CHARLES DICKENS by Angus Wilson. 302 pages. Viking Press...