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...information on the gifted child that should prove useful to it and other states facing the same problem: a progress report by an eight-state-Committee on the Gifted and Bright that has been sent to 350 prominent educators in the Northeast, will be published in December as a booklet. Some of its points: ¶Contrary to common opinion, superior and talented children are more stable emotionally than the average child, and more mature physically. ¶Such children should be given a minimum of practice in the fundamental skills (e.g., arithmetic, reading), should be al lowed to create and solve...
...file (The Packaged Program for Reenlistment) has been sent to all commanders ; they are expected to know it and to be able to use it to sell reenlistment. No man is permitted to pick up his discharge papers without an interview with his immediate commander, who gives him a booklet laying out the advantages of an Air Force career. Even after discharge, the Air Force keeps trying. For 90 days after he receives his papers, an airman can re-up and keep his old rating. During that 90 days he can surely expect a visit from a persuasive Air Force...
Communist props were everywhere. There was a Communist "pavilion of peace" and a little African girl at the entrance, selling a booklet entitled "South Africans in the Soviet Union." Communist China's Premier Chou En-lai cabled a message of support. To most of the 4,000 Africans who listened to the vivid harangues, much of the Marxist language probably made little sense when translated into Zulu or Sotho. But to the small group of Negro intellectuals, a "Freedom Charter," introduced at the meeting, did have an appeal. With the literates among them leading, Africans, Indians and colored folk...
...world's greatest evil, says the booklet, is not Communism but violence. "The basic reason for our failure lies in the nature of our present commitment to violence . . . It is now impossible for a great nation to commit itself both to military preparedness and to carrying forward a constructive and positive program of peacemaking...
...urges disarmament, suggests "nonviolent resistance'' to attack because it would "offer more prospects of a creative and genuinely victorious outcome than is the case with violent resistance under modern conditions." How can individuals aid pacifism? By making personal commitment to nonviolence in their own lives, says the booklet. U.S. Quakers figure that if enough people develop a concern for nonviolence, the concept is bound to influence community and international attitudes...