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...educated to discharge its international responsibilities and to develop its own resources. The United States then should combat Communist "pug-washing," fostering open forum discussion to develop responsible opinion. As the third objective, this nation should act "to better create a middle class power" of technicians and administrators in backward areas...
...until the concept involved becomes clear. On the second day, they work at such disarming exercises as stating whether it is true that __ +984 = 984+793. The point is to discover that adding numerals in varying orders does not affect the sum. Later they watch a movie projector running backward and forward, extract the rules of positive and negative multiplication. Then they see two unpunctuated signs : "Slow Children at Play" and "Save Rags and Waste Paper," a good case for algebraic brackets and parentheses. It takes time, concedes Beberman. "But we feel that every child needs to experience the delight...
Whiplike Belts. With a primeval howl, a nation of 14 million people reverted to near savagery, plunged backward into the long night of chaos. Tribe turned upon tribe. Blacks turned upon Europeans. The deserted streets of great cities resounded with delirious gunfire and war cries in a dozen tongues. The 25,000-man Force Publique mutinied against their white officers, then turned their anger on their new government, against all whites, against all authority. There seemed no logical explanation for the madness that swept the Congo. The Congolese involved gave no coherent answers except to ask bitterly where were...
...Kingston Trio's Sold Out was anything but. With fond backward glances at Billboard's bestseller chart, where Sold Out last week led all the rest, Capitol Records was keeping all music shops well supplied with the hottest album cut so far by the hottest group in U.S. popular music...
...That relaxes my back. I get the feeling that my direction is up. Then I grip the bar and take a deep breath and arch my back. Then I feel in the mood. I feel like a pouter pigeon. When I feel tension on my lower back, I rock backward, and the weight comes up automatically. I think of the steps, not the weight. Thinking of the weight would unnerve...