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...nationwide test, to be given when children enter high school and again before they graduate-checking local scholarship with the national average-is favored by 59% of the principals. The reason most principals give: the test would help awaken parents in educational disaster areas, gain support for raising academic standards. Another question on standards showed wide division: "Some people say that colleges should raise their entrance requirements, making it harder for high school graduates to enter. Do you think colleges should do this...
...Unitarian minister, my gratitude to TIME, March 10, for "Unitarians, Come Out!" The article may serve to awaken some of our denominational leadership to the great tragedy which is taking place within Unitarianism at the present time. There still are many of us who do not consider ourselves above Christianity...
...village blacksmith. Discarding the useless line, he tied his hook to a thin steel wire and sat down on the rocks to wait. Ivica grew drowsy in the warm sun, looped the wire around his leg so that the eel's first tug would awaken him. That evening he did not return home. Ivica's sons found him, floating dead, in shallow water near the reef. The steel line was looped tightly around his leg. On the other end of the line was the eel, a 10-ft.-long, 300-lb. giant - the biggest ever caught...
...told visiting U.S. Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr. "We have already won over you. Your cities and bases could be stricken from the face of the earth. Your overseas bases are yours, but they are surrounded by the peoples of those countries. You will see?one day they will awaken from their slumber and recognize the folly of depending on NATO and such alliances for their protection." But he ordered his diplomats to break off disarmament talks at the U.N. and rejected the new overtures made by the NATO leaders at the Paris meeting...
...Norwegian nightingale was born north of the Arctic Circle, and would probably never have had a singing career if the Norwegian army's general staff had not been quartered on her father's farm during the war. Not knowing how to awaken a man of the rank of General Otto Ruge, Norway's commander in chief, Aase's mother asked her 17-year-old daughter to sit at the organ and sing him awake. Ruge was so impressed that he urged her to study. Since then she has risen to opera stardom in Europe. Once, following...