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...direction of European unity is more backward that forward," Giovanni Sartori, visiting professor of Government, told members of North House in an informal discussion yesterday...
...distributed over each axle. Five of the six prefer 13-ton limits per axle, but the Dutch, because of their soggy, shifting subsoil, demand a lighter weight of ten tons. Similarly, in designing a common farm tractor, the Dutch want safety features to prevent the tractor from toppling backward as it pulls attachments through their heavy-clay lowland soil. The French want a tractor engineered not to topple sideways on the hills, where much French farming is done...
...normally intelligent children come to kindergarten and first grades innocent of the elementary knowledge and aspirations of their middle-class contemporaries. This mental poverty, caused by their parents' often shocking ignorance and inarticulation, starts the kids off in school so ill-equipped that they slip helplessly backward as they go on (central Harlem eighth-graders, for example, test almost three years behind other New York City students). Thus begins the vicious circle of slum birth to school failure to joblessness to slum adulthood...
Onward, ever onward, sweeps technology toward a bright electronic world. And backward, ever backward, points the whimsical finger of fashion. Latest case in point: gas lamps...
...Roman Catholic Church has been living with a very backward theology of marriage inherited from Aristotle," Michael Novak, a catholic layman and author said yesterday in St. Paul's auditorium. Debate in public and in the Ecumenical Council on the morality of birth control has finally brought the problem out into the open, he added...