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...such teaching rare these days in U.S. public schools? Many high school principals feel that it may be. At their annual convention in Portland, Ore. last week, high school principals called for more English themes, even if teachers must enlist salaried assistants to help read and appraise them. At another meeting of U.S. school administrators in Atlantic City, N.J., Paul B. Diederich of the Educational Testing Service loosed a startling prediction: by 1970, U.S. colleges will be rejecting one-fourth of all applicants because they read and write so badly. Diederich's reason: soaring enrollment is killing English composition...
...leading contractors and 200 individuals, asking whether any business had been "solicited"' by former military men. Said Chairman F. Edward Hebert, who promises a full-scale investigation early next month: "The big names better come to protect themselves. If not, they'll become suspect. If you enlist brains for the sake of brains, there is nothing wrong. But if you enlist names for the sake of contacts, that is wrong...
...moving to the Senate floor, Strauss was still in deep trouble. Clint Anderson was working furiously against him, had made the Strauss case a Democratic confidence vote in Anderson himself. Lewis Strauss, no man to sit idle, was doing his own spadework. dropping in on Senators' offices to enlist support. An informal tally last week showed 46 Senators favoring Strauss, 45 against-and seven key votes undecided. Among those undecided was Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, whose decision might well make the difference. But Johnson was in no hurry to make up his mind: he planned to study the long...
This means that the more active, tub-thumping aspects of the Program will be halted while a reduced staff of workers set out quietly to enlist support from very wealthy individuals and very large corporations...
...Balkans to settle down in the Parisian suburb of Clichy. In twelve years he progressed from a ragpicker's cart to become a millionaire and one of France's top scrap metal dealers. At the outbreak of World War II, 34-year-old Joanovici tried to enlist in the French army. Turned down because he was still a Rumanian national, he sent his personal check for $3,000 to War Minister Edouard Daladier to help the war effort...