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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Democrats in this campaign jabbing hardest at defense as an issue? Said Adams: "The opposition gyrates, orates and berates in their frenzy to find a remedy to heal up their sores caused by the continuing combat between the Northern and Southern wings. I concede they have their hands full trying to corral implacably opposed Democrats under one political roof. Their political lasso, evidently, is a headlong attack in the area of their most dismal performance...
...though Lim Chin Siong is still lodged behind the towering grey walls of Changi prison, his colleagues on the outside are still working untiringly to build up popular support for his People's Action Party. "Singapore," said a Western diplomat recently, "may wake up one morning soon to find itself with the first democratically elected Communist government in history...
...many cases they are better than standard anesthetics. (Cows get tranquilizers to calm their jitters when coming into milk.) Dr. Salk borrows another technique from psychiatry: empathy. "A vet has to feel what the dog feels," says Salk. "When I get a patient with a tense belly, I find my belly getting tense...
Casehardened with Tradition. Teacher Genevieve Simpson (B.A.1922) was surprised to find that the algebra taught in the ordinary classroom is "not a part of modern algebra at all." Teacher Edgar Arnold (B.E. 1930) found that "this is all new to me. I have to unlearn old symbols and learn new ones. We are casehardened with tradition." "In modern math," adds Teacher Helene Lannon, who got her master's degree as late as 1948, "we have had to learn a new vocabulary. In the traditional mathematics we would say 'cancel out numbers.' Now you say 'divide...
After only three sessions, some of the teachers have already begun to expose their own pupils to the new things they have learned. But the major lesson of the Portland project is that if more cities do not do something similar soon, U.S. teachers will find themselves dismally unprepared for a curriculum in which the barriers between algebra, geometry and analysis are crumbling, solid geometry and trigonometry may disappear as separate subjects, and algebra will deal with such topics as groups, rings and fields. As one Portland student put it: "Even the concept of the line has changed. In geometry...