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Learning related facts, pupils are introduced to maps in kindergarten instead of waiting until the fourth grade to grasp what the whole earth looks like. They are told that Norseman Leif Ericson discovered the New World, not Columbus. For years, social-studies courses pounded away on the virtue of thrift, but the council program realistically recognizes that students know their own families rely heavily on credit, and teaches that both saving and spending have a place in the usual household economy...
...surreal quality of the Congo's creeping rebellion often obscures the fact that slowly but surely the country is slipping out of the government's grasp. In the seven months since the current wave of revolt began in Kwilu province, various rebel bands-some Communist-backed, others leaderless but just as vicious-have captured fully a third of the nation. Last week the tide lapped at, and then inundated, the biggest rebel prize yet. Strategic Stanleyville, the Congo's third largest city and the old stronghold of its first Premier, Leftist Patrice Lumumba, fell after two days...
...always there, though too often it is forgotten; in the mid-60s the new presses in upon events with a force so strong that only the alert can grasp its significance. TIME'S continuing aim is to respect the old that is worthy of respect, to be interested in the new that is worthy of interest, and to relate them to one another in a way that sheds intelligent light on both...
...times he hectors uncooperative court clerks: "You are not the court. You are not God. You are just Charley Limpus." Always he seems more hep on relevant new decisions than many judges. "He's a brilliant man," says Orange County Public Defender W. D. Frederick Jr. "His grasp of case law is phenomenal...
...Doll Baby, Let's Go." But Salinger has since made it clear that he is not just kidding around, now impresses audiences with his grasp of California problems. He works 18-hour days, often gets by on five hours of sleep, has dropped 13 Ibs. to 190 in five weeks...