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...book is Better Learning Through Current Materials (Stanford University Press, $3), written by members of the California Council on Improvement of Instruction and edited by Lucien Kinney and Katharine Dresden. (The Saturday Review of Literature not long ago listed it as one of the important educational books...
Twenty years ago, Leland Olds, like many another New Dealer, had some radical notions about capitalism. As a reporter for a labor news syndicate, he once wrote: ". . . Capitalism in the United States is rapidly passing into the stage which has marked the decay of many earlier social orders . . . The owners exist only [as] a privileged class of parasites whose idleness and dissipation become an increasing stench in the nostrils of the people...
...hour raise for longshoremen (to $1.54 an hour) and an additional 7? boost beginning March 1. The total was 11? less than the I.L.W.U. had first demanded. The 7? raise next March was again for the longshoremen, but the companies had offered the immediate 14? raise three months ago...
...Latvians. Fleeing the terrors of totalitarianism in their homelands, they had found temporary asylum in Sweden but they had never felt safe. "There is many a Russian spy there in Sweden," explained 28-year-old Grace Kupper. who had escaped her native Estonia in a fishing boat five years ago. Soon afterward her parents were taken to Siberia. Now Grace...
About ten days ago, newspapers all over the country received a tear-stained press release from West Point which stated as follows: "This year's Cadet team is the most inexperienced over to take a trip to meet a major opponent (Michigan). No less than 20 sophomores are on the squad...