Word: winnetka
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could listen to compressed speech lectures through earphones in languagelab situations at anywhere from 475 to 600 w.p.m. In the future, new techniques may raise intelligibility rates to 1000 w.p.m. A speeded speech program has already been instituted on an experimental basis at a school for the blind in Winnetka, Illinois. The Library of Congress has also expressed interest in Cramer's findings for its talking-book programs for the blind...
...young and he's traveling on the reputation of his father," a hostile Winnetka Republican said recently of Adlai E. Stevenson III '52, the Democratic candidate for Treasurer of Illinois...
...himself, automatically wiping his eyes with the back of his hand and speaking individually to each mourner. "We all have problems and we overcome them," he said to one friend. "There has to be a reason for everything." After Valerie's body was cremated and buried in a Winnetka cemetery, the family fled their home for a few days' rest in private...
Sydney P. Marland Jr., 51, came to Pittsburgh's 77,000-pupil school system from such relatively vest-pocket operations as Darien, Conn, and Winnetka, Ill. Since September 1963, Marland has demonstrated that this did not di minish his ability to think big. The chief elements of his Pittsburgh plan: - TEAM TEACHING. As in other schools, a group of half a dozen or more teachers work together with a large group of children. "But team teaching is more a spirit than a thing," says Marland. He finds that since teachers can be more creative, teaching in slum areas becomes...
...Chicago's Borg-Warner Corp., who took the conservative old auto-parts and appliance maker into such varied fields as aerospace and oil-drilling gear, thereby nearly doubling sales to $585 million by 1961, when his son Robert took over the top job; of cancer; in Winnetka...