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Using the more complex machine for high-school and college level often requires a system called "vanishing." In learning a poem, for example, first certain insignificant letters are omitted, then important letters, then unimportant words, then more important words. After that a whole line is dropped out, then increasing numbers of lines, and in a surprisingly short time the student is able to repeat the whole verse without having made a wrong response...
Disposing, for the moment, of the theory that Harvard can change the NSA by getting out of it, the controversy boils down to a debate over whether the NSA can offer the College anything of value. If participation in inter-college discussions on pilot programs for high-school teaching, on the problem and solution of racial integration, and on the problem of Federal aid to education is valuable, then NSA has something to offer...
...marshals fanned through the city to serve school officials and teachers with copies of a restraining order issued by two judges of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals against a pet Orval Faubus plan: turning the schools over to a private school corporation for segregated operation. Unfazed, Governor Faubus, who had always pretended that he sought only an integration delay to let things quiet down, now told a Little Rock reporter: "I will never open the public schools as integrated institutions." It thus appeared that Little Rock's high-school students might as well settle down to a long...
...bang-up day in tiny (pop. 1,827) Brandon, Miss. Back from her triumphs in Yankeeland, back for the flashbulbs, the high-school bands, the parades and the sorghum-sweet welcome, came the local girl who had made good: willowy, winsome Mary Ann Mobley, 21, Miss America of 1958. Throughout the weekend celebrations in Jackson, Vicksburg and Brandon, Mary Ann smiled graciously, accepted tokens of esteem (including TV sets and a dozen hams), broke down when she saw that Brandon had renamed Main Street as Mary Ann Brive...
Civil Libertines. In Seoul, Korea, Vice Minister of Education Kim Sun Ki ordered all high-school teachers to give up their concubines...