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...Superintendent Charles E. Wingo of Argo, Summit and Bedford Park, 111. uses a system originally started by the late Julie Hay, a longtime Bedford Park schoolteacher. Teacher Hay figured out that 87% of all the syllables in the abridged Webster's dictionary are phonetic. The Hay-Wingo system begins with the short vowel sounds, then the ten most commonly used consonants. After that come the long vowel sounds and the ,rest of the consonants. Within two months, local teachers claim, "the children are unlocking words-on their...
Ford reached this summit after a decade of steady climbing. In 1946, on sales of roughly $900 million, it lost $8,000,000. It rode into the black the next year with a net income of $63 million, almost quadrupled the figure by last year with $228 million. Passenger-car and truck sales last year were 1,991,000, or 30% of the U.S. auto industry's total v. G.M.'s 50% and Chrysler's 13%. In the first nine months of this year, net income of $312 million was well above last year...
...From the Summit. In Fra Angelico the man, the monk and the artist were as one. Sharing both in the final, full flowering of the Middle Ages and the first springlike surge of the Renaissance, Fra Angelico stood at a summit during one of those rare moments of equilibrium between epochs...
...year: Bulganin and Khrushchev. These two poison ivy twins of deceit and doublecross inaugurated their diabolical crusade at the Summit with their blandishments of sweetness and avowal for peace...
...speech before the New Orleans Foreign Policy Association in the half-filled International Room of the Roosevelt Hotel. Harriman charged President Eisenhower with responsibility for the fact that "the lines of the great alliance of free people have been seriously breached" by the Soviet "breakthrough" at the Summit conference in Geneva last summer. When Harriman arrived in New Orleans, he had no known Louisiana supporters for President. When he left, observers could still find none...