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...tougher curriculum is the least and easiest of needed school reforms. The limiting factors loom larger than ever-rule and overrule by small-minded school board members having no single professional qualification, the absence of policy and real authority to cope with overwhelming discipline problems, the license of the lay public in interfering with and abusing school personnel...
Turn in Space. The Russians issued no explanation of how this was done. Easiest way is to turn the final-stage rocket in a desired direction by gyros or gas jets and then burn additional fuel to speed it up, slow it down or move it sideways. The necessary orders can be given by radio from the ground or by the rocket's own inertial guidance system. If the orders came from the ground, the problem was to get an accurate track of the rocket's course. The cloud of glowing sodium that the rocket released may have...
...saved at all, they put their money under the mattress, or in government securities or postal savings. Today, millions who once looked on stock ownership as the pastime of the rich, and stock exchanges as sinister cabals against the common man, are eagerly investing in capitalism. One of the easiest ways, as in the U.S., is through mutual funds...
Most productions of the play whip up the comedy and farce furiously, and abridge or soft-pedal the Claudio-Hero plot. Other things being equal, this may be the best solution--it is certainly the easiest. But Rabb has favored or scrimped no element in the play; he has lavished as much care on the serious as on the comic and farcical aspects. Consequently we can best see the play as it really is: when the lines soar, this production soars; when the writing flags, so does the production. The director's decision was daring, dangerous, and difficult...
...another whistle stop in Los Angeles, Campaigner Truman, addressing some rapt businessmen, looked ahead to 1960, backhandedly nominated Vice President Richard Nixon as his own preferred G.O.P. White House aspirant: "I hope [the Republicans] don't bury him until after the next election. He'll be the easiest to lick...