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Successful Failure. Robert LaFayette Cox has been on the run for the better part of his life. A couple of his slower-footed friends in the grade-school gang he ran with in Los Angeles wound up in reform school. When he was 14, he ran away from home, worked at odd jobs along the West Coast for a few months before he took a crack at education again in Washington's Walla Walla High School...
...none other than President Sukarno himself. Indonesia's national hero and the father of his country, Sukarno has never in his life stood for elective office. He was much impressed by the ideals of Thomas Jefferson and Dwight Eisenhower on his U.S. visit last year, but as a grade-school kind of Marxist he found his visit to Red China a few months later much more instructive...
...intelligence. Written and directed by Frank Capra as the second in a special science series (the first: Our Mr. Sun), the film told the story of the blood and how it gets around. It was doubly condescending in assuming that 1) viewers must be approached at the grade-school level to woo their interest in science, and 2) the circulatory system is so intrinsically dull that it takes the act of Capra to improve on the Lord's handiwork...
...digs cruelly, but always humanely. One day a chaplain advised delay when he found out that the airman was deep in debt (which the British girl had not known). Another chaplain, after hearing the story of a well-off British girl who wanted to marry an airman with a grade-school education and go home with him to a small Pennsylvania coal-mining town, also recommended delay. Still another chaplain tried to discourage the marriage of a Southern Negro to a British white girl, even to the point of going to the girl's parents and explaining how difficult...
...This happens on specified grounds that the series is a part of the world we live in. So, it could be argued, are nightclubs, canasta, and . . . The question is: Are such blessings as TV used to educate or distract?" ¶ "What about 'field trips'? Are all the grade-school junkets to the bakery and print shop essential to the training of your child's mind? When a peripatetic 'social studies' class goes gaily off to the county jail for a half-day at a time, what effect does it have on other classes and classwork...