Word: regularizing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Peru, which imposes 300% customs duties on new U.S. cars, the most notable rolling relics are colectivos, taxibuses plying regular routes from Lima's working-class slums to market. Driver Andrés Barreto says he was lucky to have bought his six-cylinder 1929 Packard Diplomat. "I just happened to be in the Tacora junkyard when a fellow drove up in this car. I tell you I got a bargain. That was eleven years ago, and this car makes at least $7.25 a day for me. I carry as many as twelve passengers and bags of potatoes, green...
...reality, the new edition is only a four-page wrapper for the regular issue. But Editor Jackson spoke bravely of the future: "A modest beginning to a restoration of the larger coverage and service and, we hope, the circulation we once had." Even so, Jackson went right on beseeching partyliners for alms to pay the Worker's debts of about $70,000. For the Worker, prosperity still seems permanently around the corner...
...letter D for deserter; the Indian encampment of Rainbow Son-Horgan's fictional version of Geronimo-deep in Mexico's Sierra Madre. Curiously, the battlescapes are poorly drawn, and may result from Horgan's dour knowledge that the Apaches invariably melted away when confronted with regular troops. Unfortunately for the balance of his book, the weight of a growing nation and the determination of Hazard and his cavalrymen seem excessive when they are opposed by only a handful of barbaric and ill-equipped savages...
...Heartened by reports from the Toronto suburb of Etobicoke, where International Telemeter Corp. is trying toll television (TIME, March 14) in competition with three regular channels from Buffalo and two from Toronto, Chicago's Zenith Radio Corp., in association with RKO General, is asking the FCC for permission to make a similar test in Hartford...
Under the plan, a student has no regular classes or grades. Starting in his sophomore year, he is on his own. Though focusing hard on his "major," he is encouraged to get a "general education" by reconnoitering anything else that interests him. Such flights (and his progress) are rigorously checked by four or five teachers, sitting as a collective tutorial committee (unlike the British one-to-one tutorial system). To put students and professors on the same side, exams are given only by outside testers at the end of the junior and senior years. "We are searching for ways," says...