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...Francisco got its first Negro grade-school principal, in charge of a teaching staff and a student body of Negroes and whites...
Baltimore's Calvert School calls itself "The School That Comes to You." It operates a mail-order business that sends complete grade-school courses to the isolated and the bedridden all over the world. Calvert got into the business back in 1897, when all its own pupils were quarantined in their homes by a whooping-cough epidemic. Since then,, mothers all over the world have switched to Calvert. Its courses, complete with textbooks, paper, pencils, pictures and prints-and parent-proof instructions on how to teach, tell stories, deal with disobedience and sex problems-have inched up the Yangtse...
Tito carefully fosters this jingoism. Sound trucks in every village spout nationalist propaganda. Grade-school readers contain pictures of rifles, tanks, and airplanes. All young Yugoslavs are compulsory members of Tito's National Youth Organization, where they get technical and military training. Ascetic discipline is rigidly preached and enforced (sexual promiscuity is almost as serious an offense as a weakness for capitalism). Martial virtues are also inculcated. For months after the German surrender, female partisans were allowed to carry hand grenades at their sides (until one exploded during a jitterbug session...
...Grade-school kids have been directing street traffic, two or three to a kiosk, with more safety and celerity than anyone remembered. Today the workers' unions took over so the kids could go home and get some sleep. The university students, who operate in spontaneous, well-disciplined cadres of ten, haven't had much sleep either. There were over 1,300 of them (many are now dead), and they still hold themselves responsible for law and order...
RendÓn's first formidable program included twelve points. Since then he has added 125 more. Some of them: 1) congressional candidates must be able to produce certificates of grade-school attendance; 2) the Mexican constitution should be rewritten in verse and set to music; 3) anemic Mexican Indians shall be painted a healthy red to please the tourists; 4) the money stolen by labor-union leaders shall be used to buy coffins for the poor; 5) so that all may be equal in death, Mexicans shall be buried under a standard-model tombstone...