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...Almost commonplace in prosperous suburbs this year are "ungraded" primary classes, which spur kids to hustle through each subject at their own pace. Newton, Mass, aims to use this idea at all levels, from kindergarten through high school...
...Blessing says West Germany is catching "the English disease," by which he means allowing wages to outrun productivity, thus pricing goods out of foreign competition. But the unpopular "wage pause" ordered by the Macmillan government a year ago has helped Britain to hold wage increases to 4.6% and to spur British exports to the Common Market countries, where wages are increasing much faster. Britain's increase in productivity, however, is a poor 2^%, and companies with excess capacity find little incentive to expand. Managers are also delaying decisions to spend until they learn whether Britain will get into...
...wants Congress to enact a spur-the-economy tax cut. But Wilbur Mills, the key committee chairman in the House, says he is "cool" to the idea; Harry Byrd, the Senate's No. 1 fiscal fellow, is deep-frozen against...
Last week the Ford Foundation gave Franklin $1,000,000 to spur a wealth of new projects, notably the creation of a one-volume encyclopedia, slated for translation into five languages. The work is slow, since each version has to add local lore about flora, history and religion. But the promise is big, since few of the countries have any kind of reference books. With its new Ford money, Franklin is also thinking about untapped markets from Spanish-speaking Latin America to French-speaking West Africa. Soon due for Africa: a first edition of Ferdinand the Bull in Ewe, Fanti...
Hartford Gunn Jr., general manager of WGBH, told the Summer News that the station is till about $200,000 short of its goal, but that "Harvard's generous gift should spur many people to help finish off the drive." "The donation of land should make a dramatic appeal and bring the WGBH campaign back to public attention," he declared...