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...Upgraded vocational education so that students leaving school would have at least one marketable skill. New schools, copying the pattern of Chicago's Dunbar Vocational High School, should be located in large metropolitan areas to teach such trades as bricklaying, carpentry and auto repairing. Otherwise vocational programs should be distributed among the general high schools, as is being done in Detroit. Slow learners might even be prepared for service occupations, such as bellboys, messengers and laundry drivers...
Died. Charles Dunbar Burgess King, 86, President of Liberia from 1920 to 1930, who resigned under fire when slave-running operations were uncovered in the African republic founded by freed U.S. slaves; after a long illness; in Monrovia...
...film in fact is a crude pastiche of two novels: Scriptwriter Paul Osborn has lifted some characters and incidents from William Bradford Huie's Mud on the Stars, but much of his plot is taken from Borden Deal's Dunbar's Cove. As finally assembled, the picture tells the story of a young TVAgent (Montgomery Clift) who is ordered to turn an 80-year-old woman (Jo Van Fleet) off her land so that a big new dam can be closed, the area flooded, and a waterpower project set in motion. She refuses to budge...
...Chicago the Sun-Times's Education Editor Ruth Dunbar roves a beat that in recent years has encompassed Russia and the Far East, produced effective stories on the public-education systems in the Soviet Union, Korea and Japan. Helen Fleming, of the Chicago Daily News, writes with such telling effect on the local education scene that, after a series observing that the Chicago school system made only seven of 16 basic high-school courses compulsory, and questioning the latitude this left the student, the school board added four more courses to the compulsory list. In Los Angeles...
...EVERYBODY'S MOUNTAIN. The Dunbar Vocational High School, in Chicago...