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...rather that, while she found the German middle class "pedantic and small," she found in the workers' way of life "greatness and scope ... I simply found it beautiful." Later, after her doctor husband established a practice in the workers' section of North Berlin, she came to know firsthand the "hardship and tragedy" of her husband's patients. When her 18-year-old son Peter was killed in World War I, her sense of tragedy deepened. The bronze monument she designed for him, showing the two parents grieving, was agony in itself; it took her 18 years...
...chairman of Fieldston's social-studies department. Scott spends only two hours a day in the classroom-allowing him to pursue his own scholarly research, which in turn he shares with students. He calls textbooks "mere dry husks of facts," insists that youngsters grapple firsthand with the issues and ideas of history. To convey "the human meaning-how people thought and suffered.'' Scott supplies documents that only scholars normally see. All it takes, he says, is a Mimeograph machine, the instrument "that gives back a student's heritage." As Scott sees it ("Historians have to take...
Though things were falling apart in Laos, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Mc Namara, clad in suntans and heavy-soled combat boots, took a firsthand look at the Vietnamese war and came away with guarded optimism...
...will remain until we do." Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has South Viet Nam at the very top of his daily agenda. He has made monthly visits to Hawaii for briefings on the progress of the war, and this week he is scheduled to arrive in Saigon for a firsthand look. He intends to climb into khaki work clothes and set off with Harkins on an intensive field inspection, ranging from the new "strategic hamlets" in the highlands to the training camps of the Mekong Delta, where the Green Berets-the U.S. Special Forces-are instructing Vietnamese soldiers in everything from...
Victory Key. Back in Washington from a month of firsthand observation in the jungle were four sunburned, weary U.S. officers-a general and three colonels. To President Kennedy, the four antiguerrilla specialists reported that the war with the Viet Cong guerrillas is going better, but that the Communists are still winning. Some of the report's main points...