Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...four-track system that Hansen, then assistant superintendent, sold to Washington's board of education in 1956. On the basis of ability and motivation, all students are divided into four groups. At the top are 3,000 gifted students (IQs above 120), navigating a tough "honors" track from third grade on (about 20% are Negroes). At the bottom are slow learners who need special remedial attention. In the middle are two tracks, embracing those of college ability and those who expect only to finish high school. Each student gets the kind of challenge and help he needs, and "tracking...
Among those basic ones now available to Washington students are Russian courses in three of the District's ten high schools and a sweeping program of French and Spanish for 1,900 third-graders in 49 elementary schools. But English remains Hansen's favorite basic, and better writing is one of his priorities: "It seems to me more important for us to know the structure of language than to know how a spark plug works in an automobile...
...nation's largest food processor, rose 17.3% to set a new quarterly record of $1.12 a share v. 95? a share last year. Bulova Watch Co. ticked its way to an impressive 69% hike for the first nine months, largely on the strength of higher earnings in its third quarter...
Burlington pays Love $120,000 a year. With his attractive third wife, Martha, and his eight children, he also owns about $6,000,000 worth of company stock. He has an ocean-front estate in Palm Beach (for weekends), a three-room suite in Manhattan's Berkshire Hotel (where he spends Monday and Tuesday) and a $200,000 red-brick home in Greensboro (where he spends Wednesday, Thursday and Friday). Commuting among them, Love travels some 2,300 miles a week by plane and train, dictating memos and reading reports all the way. He usually works seven days...
...Robert H. Stewart III, 34, was named president of the First National Bank in Dallas, the Southwest's second biggest (after Dallas' Republican National). Spectacled, boyish Bob Stewart is a third-generation banker whose grandfather was chairman of the First National, his father a director until last week (his uncle is president of Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co.). He started as a runner for Dallas' Empire State Bank in 1949 after service as a first lieutenant in World War II and graduating from Southern Methodist University, joined the First National in 1951 as an assistant cashier...