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...Clayton Buell, an official of the Philadelphia public school system, warned his colleagues of the dangers of a popular pedagogical trend. Said he in the current Clearing House: "The group determines all, in school. Pupils are made to feel they must go along with the group . . . Even the extremely gifted pupil is told, 'What you need is to go out and play marbles with the other boys.' And we are partly right-he does have to learn to get along, but does he need to lower his interests and his actions to the average? . . . We have taught well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card | 2/24/1958 | See Source »

...planned to accompany Mamie to the May launching of the first nuclear surface ship at Camden, NJ. (Ike's answer: "I don't know anything about it.") The other was whether he planned to meet and discuss racial problems with New York's Negro Representative Adam Clayton Powell. (Answer: "I will have to look this one up.") In fact, Jim Hagerty's news judgment, as evidenced by his briefing, may have been better than the reporters': they asked no questions in the headline-making field of U.S. missile progress, for which Hagerty and Ike were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WHITE HOUSE: Authentic Voice | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

...pushed by FTC to stop what it considers to be growing concentration in some industries. As a start, FTC ordered Crown Zellerbach, No. 2 U.S. papermaker (after International Paper), to sell St. Helens Pulp & Paper Co., which it bought in 1953. This was first time FTC invoked amendment to Clayton Antitrust Act that forbids merger which may create monopoly in just a single line of commerce. (The "line" in this case is the coarse-paper market in eleven Western states.) Crown Zellerbach will appeal to courts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jan. 13, 1958 | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...capitalism and Mexican socialism. Between 1936 and 1938 President Lazaro Cardenas expropriated foreign-held cotton land in the valley, doled it out to Mexican peasants. Too poor to buy seed, fertilizer and equipment, the farmers turned to the Mexican subsidiary of the giant U.S. firm of Anderson, Clayton & Co., which branched out from ginning into financing the growers. Since 1939, production has climbed ten times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Green Stain of Prosperity | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

Program Note. In Asheville, N.C., Clayton Harmon apologized to his men's club for being late for the meeting where he was to present a highway safety program because he had been ticketed for speeding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 23, 1957 | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

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