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...Wilcox insists that these and other questions must be ironed out "as we look at individual courses and specific situations." His mind works on an operational level. He avoids definitions, generalizations, sweeping conclusions and philosophies of education. At a vague abstraction his brows furrow, a slight smile forms at the corners of his mouth. "You've got to talk about concrete situations", he says brusquely. "I don't believe there's any one flat philosophy that can serve everyone best. I think people sought to be given options...
...dramatic. Most of the country's arable land has been concentrated in the hands of a few wealthy hacienda owners ever since colonial days; the peasants either worked as sharecroppers or scratched a bare living out of their own tiny plots, often no larger than a single furrow. Today a peasant's life expectancy is only 32 years, and his income is about $110 annually. To get maximum effect from the new law, which goes into effect next month, the government set up separate agencies offering credit and technical assistance to the new landowners...
Fashion's permutations and combinations have fascinated the frivolous and the furrow-browed; the shirring of a sleeve or the fall of a hemline has borne the burden of some heavy-duty thinking. Psychologists have explored man's ambivalence about clothes, noting that he uses them on the one hand to cover the body's naughty nakedness, and on the other hand to draw attention...
...triumph; a guard blew his brains out. At La Cabaña in Havana, the guards amused themselves by ordering prisoners outside, where they are stripped, beaten with gun butts and jabbed with bayonets. Among those testifying was a woman whose husband was in prison; he had "a bleeding furrow on his wrists," the result of his being "strung up like...
...gatherings to honor the party's first winning presidential candidate. Much of what the speakers said was as predictable as what Democrats say at Jefferson-Jackson dinners. At Springfield, Ill., the voice of Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen summoned the party to "plow the long, hard furrow through which the Republican Party came to power and saved the Union in grave hours." Republican National Chairman William Miller thundered that the G.O.P. "must win in '64, or there won't be a country worth saving in '68." Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater and numerous other...