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...education. Passionate on the subject of "uneducated educators" (especially college presidents), he says that education will return to its proper role of "perspective" only when it rediscovers teachers with "the intellectual guts to expose themselves to criticism and improvement." For five years Greenburg has exposed himself on San Antonio's commercial station WOAI-TV, driven his viewers to read one "great book" a week and sit still for the torrent of gibes, jokes, sneers and slang that he delivers with cheerful self-esteem after arduous homework (he has read The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy 444 times...
When the first human rides into space and reaches 80 miles up, he will hear alarming sounds: the sharp pings of cosmic dust particles hitting the skin of his capsule. Harvard Astronomer Professor Fred L. Whipple last week told an Air Force space conference at San Antonio that the earth is surrounded by a shallow but unexpectedly dense cloud of dust that can be detected only by the noise that it makes when it hits space vehicles equipped with listening devices...
...Roebuck and Woolworth, Westinghouse and General Electric; 3) break off diplomatic relations entirely; 4) stage an "incident" to prove U.S. aggression. At week's end the U.S. sent a curt note to Havana protesting that five Castro airforce planes were being painted over with U.S. insignia at San Antonio de los Banos airbase near Havana. With the blue-and-white U.S. star on wings and fuselage, the planes could easily create the incident Castro wants...
...best high-cockalorum manner, Harry Truman sashayed through Texas, doing his bit for Jack Kennedy and the Democrats. More than 700 well-heeled Texans paid $50 a plate for a roast-beef dinner and a full serving of the old Harry in San Antonio. And Harry was steaming. "This Republican outfit doesn't know the definition of parity," he cried. "All the prices have gone down, down, down. And the damn farmers still vote the Republican ticket. They ought to have their heads examined...
...words gained special force last week in the news from Cuba itself. In Santiago, Antonio Zarba, 28, of Somerville, Mass., and 20 Cubans captured after landing on the northeast coast of Oriente province (see map) went on trial before an army tribunal. The next morning Zarba and seven men were dead, gunned down on an army rifle range near San Juan Hill. The remaining 13 drew prison terms up to 30 years. In Santa Clara another 200 rebels, rounded up in the Sierra Escambray, got an equally swift trial: less than five minutes per man. Verdicts: death for five, jail...