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...advisory mission is plotting a coup. U.S. housewives on shopping trips have been heckled with shouts of "Yankee go home," and on Caracas' new Armed Forces Avenue, crude painted signs urge "death to the imperialistic Yankees." Venezuelan schoolchildren only seven and eight years old came out of one grammar school chanting memorized anti-U.S. slogans. In good-humored rebuttal, U.S. oilmen, who have kept Venezuelan oil flowing through dictatorship and revolution, are forming the SPCAID-"Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to American Imperialist Dogs...
...their gloom, the conference members reported some progress. Teachers who aim first at providing conversational ability, with reading, writing and grammar added later, are gaining ground. Recordings and taped playbacks of students' own speech are proving valuable. Most encouraging statistic of the report: since 1952 an increasing number of school systems have adopted plans similar to the third-grade-through-high-school proposal of Conference Member Mary P. Thompson, curriculum consultant for Connecticut's Fairfield schools. By 1955, says the report. 270,000 children were learning foreign languages in U.S. elementary schools and that was as many...
...from Steerage. In the spring of 1897, Bernard, then 7½, landed with his mother from the old Rotterdam's steer age to take up residence in the tenement slums of East Boston. Bright little Bernie skipped every other grade at Lyman Grammar School, put in a year at Mechanic Arts High School before a brother's death made him pick up a bread winner's load in his close, protective Jewish family. To get his first job at the age of 14, he started one morning in the center of Boston's business district...
Beauty aids, once considered a luxury, are now a necessity-especially to the 20 million women who have jobs. Young girls now battle parents to wear cosmetics in grammar school, and women's magazines are full of frightening stories about older women who let themselves go-and wake up to find their husbands gone. "A woman who doesn't wear lipstick," says Max Factor, president of one of the top five U.S. cosmetics firms, "feels undressed in public. Unless she works on a farm." The result: 95% of all women over the age of twelve...
...return, however, is not enough. There must be a full-scale reevaluation of the Levelling Philosophy. For the benefit of all students, we can institute course requirements in language, mathematics, and science--and provide for advanced work in literature and history. If the grammar school has not taught its charges the fundamentals of reading writing, and spelling, the secondary school should not compound the folly and bequeathe colleges a simple-sentence, monosyllabic thinker...