Word: chapters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from his statement as he read, "is my final action. I wanted to tell you that, and that is all, gentlemen." He made a gesture with his hand, as though closing the book on the entire affair. But the book was still wide open; at least one more chapter remained to be written...
Then the President made it clear that he intended to write the next chapter in the case of Harold Talbott. "I am going to read the complete record of everything that I can find on this myself," he said, "and I will have to make the final decision on the basis of the ethics involved." When he went to his Gettysburg farm for the weekend, he had with him the 471-page record of the Talbott hearings...
...hear them talk about him in little (pop. 6,000) Wasco, Calif., one would think that P. D. Spilsbury was both mayor and millionaire benefactor. Actually, he is a high school teacher of vocational agriculture, and his chief achievement is the Future Farmers of America chapter that he and his students have built up. To the citizens of Wasco, this is achievement enough. "By golly," says Fred Fry, co-owner of the Wasco Hardware Co., "we just couldn't get along without...
Though P.D.'s F.F.A. chapter is only one of some 9,000 now operating across the U.S., it provides a spectacular example of what this particular kind of U.S. education can do. Begun in 1928 under the Federal Board for Vocational Education, the national F.F.A. program is an attempt to combine academic work in agriculture with practical after-school experience. The boys who join can buy livestock from their chapter and grow crops on ground leased through it. These they can sell for a profit, while the chapter uses whatever is left over to make a profit...
TOUR DE FORCE, by Christianna Brand (272 pp.; Scribner; $2.75), might be regarded as a superior mystery if it had been written by a newcomer, but from the author of Fog of Doubt it is disappointing. This time Author Brand blithely switches the point of view from chapter to chapter, for no apparent reason. The payoff to her mystery, furthermore, is a disastrously frayed cliché. But the Brand strength lies in a vivid setting and amusing characters. Her setting in this case-an independent kingdom on an island in the Mediterranean-is as believable and as funny as something...