Word: programming
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...could see the need more than a decade ago from his office in the family candy firm, when he was appalled by a survey that showed widespread functional illiteracy below the levels of the Chattanooga society in which he lived. He and his friends organized their own training program, and Brock started coming down from his plush home atop Lookout Mountain to teach reading and writing to impoverished blacks...
...younger workers. All over Poland, Communist Party youth clubs reverberate to the latest rock sounds. To be sure, the scene in Cracow is vastly different from the one in California, and when a young Pole talks about turning on, he is probably referring to Radio Warsaw's Third Program, which features hits from the West. A quarter-century after a war in which every fifth Pole perished, Poland is on the verge of transition...
...China's campuses were closed during the Cultural Revolution, there were 800,000 students. Now, with so many college-age youths down on the farms, China's college population stands at a mere 80,000 at about a dozen universities. Peking's rustication program has not pleased a good many citified professionals who are forced to become "barefoot" doctors and teachers...
...demonstrating "the woman as object"; Katharine Hepburn in Woman of the Year, playing a liberated female journalist, only to fade out in the kitchen when Spencer Tracy calls her "unfeminine" because she can't cook; Bette Davis' surrender to Henry Fonda in Jezebel which, according to the program notes, is "an object of contempt to feminists rivaled only by Marlene Dietrich's trudge into the desert in Morocco...
...equal number of students now take the slightly different tests given by the eleven-year-old American College Testing Program...