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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down since its first feverish response to Russia's sweep into outer space. A series of impressive public school reforms and experiments has begun. As the new school year opens, the top education story is a growing campaign to galvanize every talent at every level-a kind of common consent that equality of effort ranks as high on the agenda as equality of opportunity. This week's cover story is a panoramic view of schools in ferment, your guide to what may prove the most rewarding school year in U.S. history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 14, 1959 | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

...Somali nomads' grazing lands lie over the border in Ethiopia. To the frustrated disgust of Somali nationalists, moreover, French Somaliland voted last year to stay in the French Community, and the French, determined to hang onto their profitable Djibouti rail line to the interior, have made common cause with the Ethiopians against the dream of an independent Greater Somalia made up of all the territories occupied by Somali tribes. Last July President Charles De Gaulle himself stopped off in Djibouti on his way from Paris to Madagascar to announce firmly: "France is here and intends to stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOMALIA: Birth Pangs | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

Later at a press conference, the bishop explained that it was not Harris' "near-Catholic trimmings and trappings" he objected to, but his departure from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer. "In the Church of England there is a considerable degree of liberty allowed to the clergy in interpretation of doctrine and in ceremonial practice. We are both a Catholic and a Reformed Church. That means to say that the Church of England is the official and authorized expression of the one Catholic Church in this country. But at the same time, it has been cleansed of the abuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Trouble at St. Andrew's | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

...Mexico, there was little reason for Columnist Baroni to be deeply disturbed by the exposure. He was following an established custom, a journalistic practice common in many places in Latin America. Many a Mexican newsman is for sale; a chief duty of government press officers is to disburse igualas (fees) to reporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: News Space for Sale | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

European automen are sure that Flick yearns to grow still bigger. They buzz that he is working toward a merger with a major French or Italian automaker to dominate the car industry in the European Common Market. He has had Daimler buy preferred shares that can be converted into 5% of Studebaker-Packard Corp., his U.S. distributor. But a key factor in Daimler-Benz's plans will be the effect of the new U.S. compact cars on Mercedes' vital U.S. sales. Daimler-Benz is less worried than most other European car makers. Says President Fritz Konecke: "Our appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: The Solid Gold Mercedes | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

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