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...Tank. In 1937, at the age of 50, Kirwan came to Washington from Youngstown, elected to the congressional seat once held by Presidents James Garfield and William McKinley. Despite his double negatives and other grammar gaps, he was re-elected 14 times, thereby earning enough seniority on the Appropriations Committee to become the House's undisputed Prince of Pork. Kirwan is never loath to combat a political foe by lidding his barrel. Four years ago, when Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse voted against a $10 million aquarium for the District of Columbia-a pet Kirwan project-Mike simply...
...sudden impact of federal programs can be largely blamed for this year's troubles, long-range pressures are also squeezing the teaching profession. College graduates who choose teaching are turning in increasing numbers to jobs with the greatest prestige, those in colleges and high schools, leaving a growing grammar school gap. High school teachers tend to move up to junior colleges, which employ more than 65,000 as compared with 26,000 five years ago. Contending that elementary teachers have a far more profound influence on students than college teachers, James E. Russell, secretary of the N.E.A...
...many youths. Just as obviously, the schools' own self-improvements, plus such antipoverty programs as the Job Corps, should be the main remedies for the failure. But as long as the military services need more manpower, it seems reasonable that they should teach such basic skills as grammar, reading and arithmetic, along with more technical skills. The relevant question is whether they are equipped...
...Exeter, N.H., after a glowing red object appeared over Route 150 at 2:24 a.m. on Sept. 3, 1965. Subsequently, Fuller himself saw such a UFO outside the town, and his report is that of a believer, or rather a convert. He writes in documentary style, following the grammar and non sequiturs of his tape recorder, and his work has the police-blotter awkwardness of one who wishes to convince by sincerity rather than to persuade by fine writing...
...daredevil, an adventurer of the old school, not for publicity's sake, but because he is incredibly bored at doing anything else but the hairiest of man's feats." The son of an auditor, Page led a fairly normal life until his graduation from a good grammar school near London, then bought a Volkswagen bus and started driving from Amsterdam to Nepal. It took him a year; he then blithely climbed a few Himalayan mountains, began hitchhiking to Laos...