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Other-directed children go to school earlier to acquire the arts of sociability. They are graded and even seated not by what they know or can do or by temperament-but in accordance with their ability to cooperate. At what? At cooperating. "The children are supposed to learn democracy by...
Geyer became bearish in insurance stocks in a big way this year and accordingly went short (i.e., sold to his customers, at current prices, stocks which he did not own but hoped to acquire later on at lower prices). But the stocks did not drop, as Geyer had expected; instead...
Your July 12 coverage of the demise of the last great, and perhaps greatest, yacht-building institution-the Henry B. Nevins yard-brings considerable remorse to people who watch the changing American scene with an evaluative eye. The economic phenomena which have brought such great institutions as this to their...
To end the Government's atomic monopoly, it would set up machinery for licensing companies to make electric power from atomic energy. Under the AEC's paternal eye, the companies would acquire their own reactors and other facilities, but the Government would keep title to nuclear materials which...
FRENCH AUTO MERGER between Simca and Ford of France will result in the biggest privately owned French auto company, topped only by the government-owned Renault works. Under the deal, Simca will acquire Ford's modern operating plant at Poissy, near Paris, continue to make Ford's small...