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...Teacher Novak confronted a "typical" U.S. high school. While hordes of undisciplined adolescents rush about to the beat of jazz music, a flock of frightened new teachers get a speech from the principal (Dean Jagger). Never get "personal" with students, says he; take all problems to administrators. Rejecting that edict, Mr. Novak gets personally interested in a bright kid who wants to drop out-and settles his problems in a 90-second confrontation. "A born teacher," mutters the principal magnanimously. "He knows when to break the rules...
...Catholics. Besides the thousands martyred by Buddhists in China, India, Ceylon, Japan, Korea, Tibet, Siam, Burma and Malaya, the extremely conservative martyrology of the church lists eight bishops, 184 priests, 2,370 nuns and 75,380 lay persons beheaded, strangled, starved or dismembered by Vietnamese Buddhists between the Edict of Jan. 6, 1833 and the Peace of June...
...Archbishop Ngo Dinh Thuc. Though Catholics were allowed to fly Vatican flags at a church celebration honoring Archbishop Thuc, three days later the government forbade the Buddhists to unfurl their religious flags for the 2,507th birthday of Gautama Buddha. When the Buddhists staged a protest march against the edict, government armored cars fired over the heads of the rioters. In the melee, nine people were killed. The Buddhists blamed the slaughter on Diem's troops; the government blamed the killings on Communist agitators...
...scrip for choice Wisconsin timberland, which eventually soared in value. When sold off, it netted the university almost $6,000,000. White meantime scoured Europe for top scholars, set high standards, and took such a dim view of football that he once vetoed a game in Cleveland with the edict: "I refuse to let 40 of our boys travel 400 miles merely to agitate a bag of wind...
...James A. Carey, head of St. Michael's Roman Catholic high school in Jersey City, N.J., last week hit his 600 girls and boys with a jarring edict: Any student "dating one person to the exclusion of all others shall be expelled." Father Carey said that he is "horrified and utterly disgusted" at parents who permit steady dating: "Inasmuch as there is so much delinquency among parents, we at St. Michael's intend to act before our offended God brings down fire and brimstone...