Word: hewed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshly typed drafts; back they sped to Washington, with here and there a penciled Eisenhower notation. Occasionally along the road the couriers passed higher-level visitors inbound to the farm. The week's first: Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Marion Folsom, who came for final approval of HEW's four-year plan for aid to scientific education (see EDUCATION). One day, comfortably dressed in a checked sports shirt and sports jacket, Ike sat at a coffee table for two hours with Budget Director Percival Brundage and Science Adviser Dr. James R. Killian Jr. for a page...
...Since one out of five students in the upper fourth of their class drops out of high school before graduation and only one out of three of those left goes to college. HEW suggested that the U.S. provide 1) grants to the states on a fifty-fifty matching basis to set up statewide testing programs to identify gifted students early, 2) matching grants to help the states train more student counselors and 3) enough money for 10,000 college and university scholarships for able students who preferably have "good preparation in science and mathematics...
...million have had the recommended three injections, 22 million have had two, and 11 million have had one; 9 million remain unvaccinated. Among the 42 million in the 20 to 40 age group, 28 million remain unvaccinated, but distributors and druggists now have 23 million shots in stock. Said HEW Secretary Marion B. Folsom: "If people will use the vaccine available, it is possible to give paralytic polio a knockout blow within the next year. It will be a tragedy if, simply because of public apathy, vaccine which might prevent paralysis or even death lies on the shelf unused...
...liberalization in the requirements for the advanced placement student would therefore give him more freedom and added intellectual stimulus, and yet still hew to that University ideal of requiring some intellectual nibbling from all fields...
...tender tyrant": she had her students carrying packages for her and driving her car, called them in the middle of the night to do copying work for her. In Teacher Boulanger, they found not only a diamond-edged musical intelligence but a sinewy will that forced them to hew rigidly to the demands of their talents. The distinguished Boulanger alumni-they call themselves the "Boulangerie"-were gathered in all parts of the world last week to celebrate her 70 birthday. At the split-level chalet of Conductor Igor Markevitch, in the Swiss Alps near Montreux, "chère Nadia" herself...