Word: dropout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...classrooms, but much has already been done. Teachers' salaries rose 45% from 1950 to 1960, while the average increase for all jobs was 29%; the pupil-teacher ratio declined from 27.7 in 1954 to 25.7 in 1960; the classroom shortage eased even as enrollment rose. As for the dropout problem, only 53% of Americans in the 25-to-29 age bracket had completed high school in 1950; last year the figure...
This too is a chase-through some of the most boring location shots outside of home movies. Fleeing from an evil advertising man, Dave Clark, who looks like a conscientious dropout, takes sad-faced Model Barbara Ferris scuba-diving in a deserted swimming pool, tree-watching in a deserted botanical garden, and wandering through a deserted factory that turns out to be full of pot-smoking beatniks and is inexplicably attacked by the British army (the adults they meet are all bad). Before they run out of location shots, Dave and Barbara have also taken a walk in the snow...
...captured G.I.s who defected to Red China have come forlornly home. Last week turncoat No. 12 returned.* By comparison with his predecessors, ex-Corporal William C. White, 35, a Negro from Plumerville, Ark., had fared well during his 11½ years behind the Bamboo Curtain. A high school dropout in Kansas City, White got a law degree in Peking, studied Russian and Chinese literature and worked as a translator. White also married a Chinese girl, who accompanied him with their two children aged six and four...
...reaches his teens, a stranger to home discipline, usually a school dropout with an atrophied IQ and no skills to help him get a job, the young Negro in the deep ghetto is incessantly told by Black Nationalists and civil rights demagogues that "The Man"−white man−is responsible for his savage hopelessness. "The Man" has become a symbol of their despair, and "Get Whitey" has become their battle...
...opportunity is society's only obligation, and the Negro has to reach out and seize it. The much-lamented dropout may indeed lack a "father image" of manly zeal, but in leaving school he makes his unwise choice against the advice of his teachers and the clear facts-of-life lesson around him. The N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins, after giving the whites their lumps for "keeping the screws on," writes: "We will have ghetto upheavals until the Negro community itself, through the channels that societies have fashioned since tribal beginnings, takes firm charge of its destiny...