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...thinking, education has an enormous economic value. He points out that the chronically unemployed are largely the uneducated and unskilled-the economy has jobs waiting to be filled, but only for the educated and the skilled. He sees in education the explanation of the "paradox of persistent poverty amidst growing plenty"; substandard education, he says, "dwarfs any other cause of poverty...
...voice: "Keep the weeds down." "Put on more manure." "Thin out in case of drought." Khrushchev, another peasant's son from the Ukraine, understands and appreciates that kind of talk. Lysenko tells virgin land pioneers not to plow their land in the fall but to plant their grain amidst the snow-catching stubble, advises Volga farmers to increase their crop by cutting their seed potatoes into three or four chips before sowing. However wildly willful his theories, he gets what the pragmatic Khrushchev considers good results...
...Recalling Baudouin's departure for a Riviera holiday at the height of Belgium's storm and flood disaster in 1953 and, a few days later, his return amidst a storm of criticism...
Learning & Burning. Kentucky's unique Berea College is designed specifically to serve poor students from the Southern Appalachians (90% of enrollment). Searching for talent amidst poverty, Berea charges no tuition (students earn their keep), is so successful of its kind that educators flock to it from underdeveloped countries in hopes of picking up ideas. Another bootstrap operation is Oklahoma City University, which is remodeling itself completely after M.I.T. (TIME, June 6). At Texas' Austin College, a hefty new Ford grant is aimed at building the school into a Southwestern Amherst or Swarthmore...
...Amidst violent demonstrations of popular support, Louisiana Governor Jimmie H. Davis is leading the resistance to the first attempt in the Deep South to effectuate the 1954 Supreme Court decision voiding the "separate but equal" doctrine...