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Among those basic ones now available to Washington students are Russian courses in three of the District's ten high schools and a sweeping program of French and Spanish for 1,900 third-graders in 49 elementary schools. But English remains Hansen's favorite basic, and better writing is one of his priorities: "It seems to me more important for us to know the structure of language than to know how a spark plug works in an automobile...
Compared with most U.S. public-school systems, Hansen's English composition program is downright revolutionary. Theme writing starts as early as the second grade, and students in the two top high school tracks are required to write 24 themes a year. To help in the time-consuming grading job (chief obstacle in other cities), Hansen has arranged with Washington's militant P.T.A. for 20 college-women "lay readers." To Hansen, it is only a small beginning. By whatever pulling and prodding is necessary, stubborn Superintendent Hansen aims to give Washington's children a real education. Says...
...good shape; e.g., Allied Chemical raised its 1959 earnings 46% (to $2.51 a share) despite a quarterly drop of 4% in profits. But nothing could save Douglas Aircraft Co. from a hefty 1959 loss as a result of heavy charge-offs against its new DC-8 jet transport program. The firm reported a loss of $33.8 million, compared with a $16.8 million profit in 1958. However, it expects peak deliveries of DC-8s in 1960 to boost overall sales to more than $1 billion-and profits with...
...brought a wide, and somewhat surprised, smile. Among the funds requested were $440 million for another 220 of Republic Aviation's F-IO5 supersonic fighter-bombers, the only fighter plane in the Air Force budget. Together with orders already in hand, it brings Republic's F-105 program to 358 planes, and the Air Force plans eventually to buy 900 planes worth a hefty $1.8 billion...
...with another 7.883 of its F-84 Thunderjet series between 1947 and 1957. But when the Air Force budget turned missile-heavy, Republic lost out. Working on the F-105, it had virtually no production in 1958, delivered only 55 planes in 1959 and had no guarantee that the program would not be washed out altogether. Sales tumbled from $547.4 million in 1955 to an estimated $200 million in 1959, while profits were down from $14.7 million to $3,000,000. From now on, with production scheduled well into 1964, the figures should all be up-if the Air Force...