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...help in the development of political leadership, COFO will establish ten daytime and three resident Freedom Schools--"to de-brainwash the kids," one SNCC worker said. The schools, which will operate five days a week, will include remedial work in reading, math, and grammar, as well as seminars in political science, the humanities, journalism, and creative writing. About 100 teachers--many of them professionals on summer vacation--will instruct the students, who will be 10th, 11th, and 12th graders...
John Lennon, organizer of the group, never knew his father, who left home when John was three. John went through grammar school and into art college, where he married a classmate. They have a baby son. With Paul McCartney, Lennon has written most of the songs the Beatles sing-and he coined the name Beatle to suggest the steady pounding beat of the rhythms of rock...
During his talks, Graham spoke with soft words and with harsh threats, quoted both modern statesmen and the Scriptures, and even reasoned with his audience to lead them to choose a "life with Christ." And when he met with a smaller crowd in Burr B. Graham was a grammar school teacher speaking to his children telling them what a commitment might mean in everyday terms...
...Pentagon is now teaching foreign languages to more than 200,000 students, biggest such Babel in the U.S. In Washington, D.C., and Monterey, Calif., it runs two of the world's most effective language schools-founts of the speak-first, grammar-later method...
...main qualifications for a Foreign Office job were a good family, a smattering of languages, and big, clear handwriting. During Lord Palmerston's 16 years as Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister, state papers were constantly returned from 10 Downing Street with testy quibbles on the writer's grammar or his handwriting, which, Palmerston insisted, should slope forward, not backward "like the raking masts of an American schooner...