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George E. Flower, assistant director of the Center for Field Studies of the Faculty of Education, said that Conant's stand against private education was distorted by many of his critics, and briefly stated what he considered to be the main points of the address given April 7 before the Association of Secondary Education...
...most important point, according to Flower was that the nation should be concerned with the development of the public high school. "If the public high schools are bettered, the private schools would be less of a danger to national unity," he said...
...Flower also said that he favored federal aid for public education. "There are some states, he said, whose income level is so low that they just cannot raise the money for education that others can. A program of federal aid would aid in making national standards more uniform...
...crowd reacted with a roar of delight. It surged 15 deep against the police lines. It jostled and milled across the hotel lawns, and smashed flower pots in a wild effort to get closer. It chanted: "Eleanor Roosevelt zindabad!" (Long live Eleanor Roosevelt...
...flower-decked hotel bedroom in Nice, Colette, aging French novelist and short story writer (Gigi, La Maison de Claudine), sipped champagne, read some Maupassant and made a 79th birthday decision: "It isn't particularly funny to learn all at once upon waking up that one is entering one's 80s. But tomorrow I will forget and give myself another age, 58 for instance, because I have remained so much a woman. At 58 one still pleases ... at 58 one has so much hope...