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...near Houston. Purpose: to teach 400 words of basic English to 42 five-year-olds, all of whom spoke Spanish only. After 3½ months the "graduates" entered first grade in the town's public schools-where more than half the Mexican-American first-graders had failed the year before-and all passed with flying colors...
...flailing futilely. For Wilhelm it was a four-hit shutout, his seventh victory of the year without a loss, and brought his earned-run average down to 1.12-best in the major leagues. At 35, well-built (6 ft., 197 Ibs.) Hoyt Wilhelm is better than he has ever been before-and especially deadly against the Yankees. Since he went over to the American League in 1957, Wilhelm has allowed the Yankees just four earned runs in 59½ innings, shut them out three times- once with a no-hitter, fortnight ago with just one hit. Wilhelm's knuckler...
Pulling the Rug. The Senate's G.O.P. liberals have raised revolts before-and walked away from them before-but this time George Aiken seemed to mean business. Reason: in 1958 such G.O.P. right-wing Senators as Nevada's George "Molly" Malone, Ohio's John Bricker, California's Bill Knowland (running for Governor) and West Virginia's Chapman Revercomb, were roundly defeated while G.O.P. liberals just about held even and were sparked in spirit by G.O.P. liberal Nelson Rockefeller's election to the New York governorship. The incoming 34-man G.O.P. minority includes twelve...
...pulse of the nation was quickening to the fresh rhythms of the galloping campaign. Supporters of both parties were eager to be sold, and so were the independents. In many big cities, where voter registration was completed or still continuing, the totals foretold a bigger turnout in November than ever before-and therein lay a Republican sore point. For although figures were significantly higher for both Republicans and Democrats, the Democratic Party strength was increasing in many critical areas faster than the Republican. Item: in nominally Republican Philadelphia registration ended with 100,240 new Democratic voters, only...
Patent Pending. At week's end, nobody knew how much uranium was in Nowata County-or whether Sam Shepherd might have discovered a practical method of mining uranium by waterflood and filter. Others have tried such a process before-and failed. But it has never been tried as a byproduct of another operation, such as oil producing, that already pays the basic costs. In any case, Shepherd has applied for a patent on his method and is getting ready to ship about ten tons of filter sand from his holdings to AEC for processing...