Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, August 30, 1995 TAG: 9508300085
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: C-4 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
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Evelyn Wood, 86, whose search for a way to improve the lives of troubled girls led to the development of speed reading techniques prescribed by presidents and endorsed by multitudes, died Saturday in Hospice Family Care in Tucson, Ariz.
The tiny, soft-spoken woman who gave her name to Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics liberated students, professionals and business people from the habits that shackled them to the average American's reading rate of 250 to 300 words a minute.
In courses that proliferated from coast to coast and spread overseas, they learned the methods that enabled them not only to read two to five times faster, but also to better retain what they read.
``So many people are dubious about trying my method because they think they're liable to miss a lot,'' Wood said in an interview a quarter of a century ago. ``I say, which would you rather do: eat a dish of rice kernel by kernel or take a spoonful to get a good taste? My reading technique is actually comprehension by accumulation.''
- The New York Times
Laos to return pilot's remains
WASHINGTON - The remains of an Air Force pilot who had been unaccounted for after an aerial collision during the Vietnam War have been identified and will be returned to the United States, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
The pilot was identified as Capt. Daniel R. Davis of Atlanta, who was 26 when his 0-1A aircraft collided with an F-105 jet over Laos Aug. 18, 1969.
A ground team reported seeing Davis' plane crash, but the wreckage was not located until a joint U.S.-Laotian excavation team found it last year. Davis had been presumed dead.
There are still 497 American servicemen listed as unaccounted for in Laos from the Vietnam War, and 2,197 in all of Southeast Asia.
- Associated Press
Memo: NOTE: Shorter version ran in Metro edition.