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...Dotty Kilgallen could also hold her own with her reportorial rivals in their own business: of all the celebrities covering, or attempting to cover, the Finch-Tregoff trial, she was the best known. At 46, the mother of three, Reporter Kilgallen conducts a syndicated daily gossip column, shares a daily small-talk radio program with her husband Dick Kollmar, and appears weekly on the television panel show What's My Line? In Los Angeles busy Dorothy sometimes attracted more interest than the trial itself: she posed for pictures with the defendants, signed scores of autographs for admirers, received...
...budget, and this is an area architects have simply not exploited.'') On his own, Rudolph has just had his design accepted for Yale's new Art and Architecture building ("All hell breaks loose on the roof"), is hard at work on a three-block-long parking garage for New Haven's Church Street Project that looks like a Roman aqueduct. ("Automobiles should have their own architecture...
...four-track scheme has paid off. Despite the steady loss of better-prepared white students, College Entrance Examination Board scores have risen each year since 1956 by more than the national average. On three national high school achievement tests, Washington students have raised their position relative to the rest of the U.S. by 14 percentile points. Hansen is still not satisfied. Beginning this year, honor students must take 16½ required annual units of work to graduate, including four years of foreign language, three of math, three of science. Next year the high school day will be lengthened...
...Ones. A stiff-collared man of headmasterly mien, Carl Hansen was born in Wolbach, Neb. (pop. 442), graduated from the University of Nebraska, got his doctorate at the University of Southern California. As an English teacher (and later principal) at Omaha's Technical High School, he developed a three-level English curriculum, forerunner of his four-track system. Long before going to Washington in 1947, he had hammered out a tough-minded notion of priorities: "Out of the unbelievable range and variety of human activities and experiences, only a limited number of basic ones can be selected for teaching...
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...