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...Perhaps aware of that reputation, Gilmore once wrote an article entitled "Great Teachers Should Be Taken Out and Shot." Its gist: pupils learn or not as they choose; teachers have little to do with...
...beauty who inspired 24-carat tributes in life, Marilyn Monroe seems to have elicited little more than tencent souvenirs in five years as a memory. At least that was the gist of a "Homage to Marilyn" art show at Manhattan's Sidney Janis Gallery. Of 50 works by 36 artists, by far the better half, from de Kooning, Rosenquist and Warhol, among others, predated her death in 1962. The recent works were second-rate or worse, with the booby prize going to Salvador Dali for a ten-foot mobile, obviously whomped up for the occasion, that features a pair...
Plea for U.S. Support. First on the agenda was a special message from Jordan's King Hussein and Kuwait's Crown Prince and Prime Minister, Sheik Jaber al Ahmed es Sabah. The gist of their joint communication as delivered by the Shah: the U.S. must find some way of expressing concrete support for the Arab moderates, lest pressure from the left force them to look to Russia for future support and assistance. The most practical support, suggested the Shah, would be arms. Not only was the Shah concerned about Senators who want to limit or end U.S. arms...
...plan. In order to protect their copyright under British law, Hutchinson then rushed out a handful of Russian-language copies of the book and put them on sale in obscure London bookshops. London newspapers scooped up the copies, put Russian-reading reviewers to work, and last week the gist of the memoirs...
...President Eisenhower rejected the findings, one of the 200 "secret" copies would surely be leaked to the press, carrying the battle to the public. They were correct: the larger printing was made, the President did not accept the report, and within days the Washington Post had published the gist...