Word: shop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soldiers had met at Mimot. Congratulatory telegrams poured in from assorted Communist organizations around the world. North Vietnamese Negotiator Xuan Thuy mentioned the Alliance in the Paris talks, saying that with its formation "the front fighting the U.S. and its lackeys has broadened." An Alliance propaganda officer set up shop in the offices of the National Liberation Front in Paris There were suggestions that the North Vietnamese might see the Alliance as a possible nucleus for a coalition government in South Viet...
...acted to inject much-needed relevancy into craft education. Going well beyond the Administration's request of $250 million, the House Education and Labor Committee unanimously approved a $1.2 billion Vocational Education bill to provide for more instructors, modern courses, and more work-study programs for high school shop students...
World of Work. The reform is long overdue. During the post-Sputnik era, so much fanfare was given to college preparation that shop training was neglected-to the detriment of millions of youngsters who had neither the wish nor the wherewithal for higher education. One million students drop out of U.S. high schools each year. Out of every five pupils who entered fifth grade in 1957, according to the U.S. Office of Education, only one has stuck it out to pick up his diploma next year. At the same time, only one in four is receiving vocational training in high...
...Chicago's Lake View, shop classes in printing set type in letterpress instead of the more advanced offset technique. In Newton (Mass.) High School, electronics students learn radio repair with vacuum tubes instead of solidstate sets. And in classrooms from Bangor, Me., to Beverly Hills, Calif., future auto mechanics finish their courses with out scraping a knuckle inside an automatic transmission (though 80% of U.S. cars are shiftless). One-half of all shop students in the U.S. are plugging away at home economics and agriculture-hardly critical crafts-while only 15% practice more pertinent skills such as industrial design...
...Italian-raised, English-educated Alexander Girard, 61, doll collecting is a passion that began in the 1920s, when he bought some Russian dolls in a London shop. The complete Girard Foundation collection today consists of some 100,000 items, including doll houses, and other memorabilia from the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. To install "The Magic of a People," Girard worked 14 hours a day, seven days a week, for three months. Artist Georgia O'Keeffe, a New Mexico friend, helped by selecting and installing the rocks used in landscaping...