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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stagnation become hard to justify, but Macmillan's efforts to break the diplomatic deadlock have frustrated the argument that the Conservatives have taken no initiative to end the cold war. Only the skeleton of Suez and the recent abuses of force in Kenya and Nyasaland haunt the Tories in foreign affairs...
Pupils of the future may learn their spelling by machine, study foreign languages by oral-aural laboratory methods and attend lecture-type courses if experiments and demonstrations conducted by the Graduate School of Education and local suburban schools prove successful. The school systems of Lexington, Concord, and Newton are serving as the proving grounds for an eight-year series of innovations in new methods of elementary and secondary school teaching...
...after a four-week summer "workshop" for planning and the preparation of teaching aids, the Departments of Business, Social Studies, Mathematics, Modern Foreign Languages, Art, and Music joined the program and are employing the Newton Plan methods in a variety of ways...
SUPRAD investigators have proposed a compromise for the Newton Junior High Schools. They have decided to try teaching in academically homogeneous groups, the content of science, mathematics, certain foreign languages, the specialized aspects of art, music, industrial arts and home economics, and the remedial aspects of English...
...only possible forward step. Some sort of half-way measure is more likely to emerge from negotiation. But along this line Khrushchev's particular proposals require very careful scrutiny, for they seem designed to weaken the West far more than the Soviet Union. The Russians ask the elimination of foreign bases and nuclear weapons, followed, not accompanied, by inspection. Even if the Soviets carried out this process in good faith, their superior ground forces would give them a military advantage which might well tempt them into provoking limited peripheral conflicts without fear of nuclear retaliation. The next step, or possibly...