Word: hewed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drafting of a new education act that would give the state firm control over all Ghanaian education. Under the provisions of the new bill (which is certain to pass the rubber-stamp Parliament), government-appointed school board governors will exercise censorship over textbooks and teaching methods so that they hew closely to the government's chosen line. Even Nkrumah's leftist neighbor, Guinea's Sekou Touré, was put off by this action. Refusing to come to Accra for the installation of Nkrumah, Touré said to a visitor: "Who ever heard of a politician and head...
Autocrat Lovett shaped Rice for 34 years, gave way in 1946 to an impressive successor, Caltech Physicist William V. Houston (pronounced How-ston v. the city of Hew-ston). No backslapping money raiser, Researcher Houston had a dream financial setup going for him. Though it may some day require students to pay tuition, Rice grows fatter on oil income by the year. It never even badgers alumni for cash. When emergencies arise, Rice simply turns to its rich friends and trustees...
...Americans aged 65 and over, 55% have cash incomes of less than $1,000, whereas 23% have $1,000 to $2,000, and 22% have $2,000 or more. The figures include social security payments but do not indicate how many oldsters are taking cash handouts from their children. HEW also finds that the over-65s use 2½ times as much hospital service as the U.S. average. Recognizing that old people indeed have a serious problem, the A.M.A. backs a law that Congress passed last year in the heat of the presidential campaign...
...psychotherapy and in group therapy. While last week's conventioneers droned through discussions of such topics as the "denial of envy of the phallus of God," one of the most scholarly of U.S. analysts gave a corridor summation: "When the analysts get up at conventions like this, they hew to the line of dogma. But you don't know what they may be practicing in their offices...
...time had come to bring in a new view," says President Kennedy's HEW Secretary Abraham Ribicoff. He set out to find "a philosopher who was not afraid of new ideas, and yet had administrative ability." Ribicoff quizzed "more than 150 people in the education world," got glowing reports about Sterling McMurrin, then academic vice president at the University of Utah. "He didn't even ask what the job would pay," recalls Ribicoff...