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...this." Where were the educators, Ribicoff asked, when his bills needed help in Congress. "Each of you was in his own compartment looking for support for his own programs and interests and were not interested in doing something for education as a whole. And education was done in." Like errant first-graders, some 75 of the educators next day declared that Ribicoff was right-and urged the council to support federal aid to public elementary and high schools next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 13, 1961 | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

...First sees her dad. But dad is about to marry a proprietary blonde (Joanna Barnes) who plans to send her stepdaughter-to-be off to school in Switzerland and, no doubt, tack chintz up all over pop's adobe ranch house. After some wonderfully Balkan sabotage, the errant parents are lured back together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Adults Are Boobs | 7/7/1961 | See Source »

...really 81. Father Hugh Kennedy is hanging back for fear the rest of the party will regard him with the dead-cold eye of the Boston cod. Father Kennedy has been an alcoholic, and though it is five years since he last drank, everyone holds his breath until the errant priest refuses a proffered sherry. Between them, Charlie Carmody and Father Kennedy divide The Edge of Sadness, but do not dominate it. In his first book since The Last Hurrah, Novelist O'Connor signs countless lOUs on his people and plot, and redeems disappointingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Something About the Irish | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

...Crimson opened the first inning as if it were going to send Navy starter Chuck Davis to the showers right away. Actually, Davis brought most of the misery upon himself. Walks to Mike Drummey and Dick Shima, a bunt single by Dave Morse, and an errant pitch that hit Al Martin gave Harvard a run and bases-loaded, no-out situation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Errors Aid Navy In 5-2 Victory | 4/15/1961 | See Source »

...followed by several 'Bulldogs,' gentlemen who share three characteristics: they wear bowler hats, they look like gorillas (big chests, long arms) and they run like the wind. If the traffic is heavy--and in Oxford it usually is--a good Bulldog can be relied on to catch an errant undergraduate in four minutes flat...

Author: By Rupert H. Wilkinson, | Title: Oxford College Combines Luxury, Austerity | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

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