Word: systemization
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Inevitably, such acts are building pressure in Congress for a change in the sugar quota system under which Cuba supplies one out of every three teaspoons of sugar used in the U.S., and at the premium price of about 5? per lb. v. 3? on the free market. This subsidy of $180 million a year to Cuba was once balanced by Cuba's preferential tariff rates. Now Cuba has raised tariff walls 30% to 100%, cutting back its imports from the U.S. by $156 million last year (to $390 million...
...Harvard examination system is designed, according to its promulgators, to test two specific things, knowledge of trends and knowledge of details. Men approaching the examination problem have three choices: 1. flunking out, 2. doing the work, or 3. working out some system of fooling the grader. The first choice of solution is too permanent, the second takes too long...
...knew it at the time. The Tribune finally decided on a tie-breaking device: a huge page full of letters and names of towns. Contestants were supposed to compile as many names as they could with the available list and the available letters; there was a complicated scoring system. At this point, many people decided the hell with it (particularly the educational types), but others--having come this far--stuck it out, and someone picked up $20,000 or so. An unsubstantiated rumor said that the winner donated half to the New York Public Library...
...years to the delight of neighborhood wise guys, recalls: "I probably had more fights than any other kid in my end of the city." At Loyola University of Los Angeles, Newell was a three-letter man, after graduation spent an indifferent season as an outfielder in the Dodger farm system before turning to high school coaching...
Died. Omer Carmichael, 66, Alabama cotton farmer's son and onetime backwoods teacher, who as superintendent (since 1945) of the Louisville, Ky. school system told his staff after the Supreme Court's decision against school segregation: "It will be my purpose to implement that decision with no effort to sidestep, no effort by subterfuge or sharp practices to defeat the purpose of the court," launched a campaign with such tact and perseverance that Louisville schools, from kindergarten through high school, were completely integrated in 1956 without a touch of violence; of a heart attack; in Louisville...