Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pretty high-class people," said the manager of Kansas City's Ambassador Hotel. "They had satin sheets on the beds." The "people" were Lieut. General Rafael ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr., who checked out of a full-floor Ambassador suite last week after failing to get a diploma from the Army Command and General Staff College at nearby Fort Leavenworth, Kans. With two aides, a collie and 35 pieces of luggage, he boarded a private railroad car bound for the West Coast and the only person who seemed to care: Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor...
...village schools, the highest level attained is scarcely that of the third grade in Dutch elementary schools . . . About 5,000 children attend these village schools, and 5% of them are given the opportunity of enjoying further education . . . There is not yet a single Papuan with a high school diploma...
Teachers' colleges are, by and large, farcical diploma mills churning out second-rate instructors on a conveyer belt of picayune courses--motion picture camera projection, physical education, fingerpainting. And because their facade is so widely realized, they attract primarily the aimless high school graduate with no particular talents and less interest in any profession. Staffed and stocked by this brand of mediocrity, education will continue to devolve...
With such a light load of academic subjects, it is not surprising to find low minimal requirements for graduation in Gary high schools. To receive a diploma, a student must take at least three years of English, two of social studies, one of math, one of science, one-half of safety, and one of physical education...
Even those students who continue to college usually find the Gary schools adequate. Most are satisfied to continue their schooling at state universities and colleges where an Indiana high school diploma is sufficient to guarantee entrance. Compared to the East, the worry of "getting into college" is almost nonexistent for Gary students...