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...Detroit. At the request of School Superintendent Samuel Brownell, a committee of businessmen and teachers tackled the question of just how much vocational training should be given high-school students who will not go on to college. Since the techniques of industry change so rapidly, said the committee, probably the best vocational education is the least vocational. Recommended basic curriculum: "English (literature, composition, grammar) throughout the four years; two years of history ; a year of plane geometry and one year of elementary algebra; a year of biology and at least one year of a physical science; an opportunity to elect...
Jacques Henriques, the narrator, goes to Westerbork before he has to. A high-school teacher, he goes because he has the offer of a job with the "Disposition Service," the Jewish organization within the camp that really runs the grisly show for the Germans in charge. His boss is Siegfried Israel Cohn, a German Jew with years in concentration camps behind him, whose sense of self-preservation is so strong that he is prepared to outdo his masters in brutality. Carefully he explains to his new young "adjutant" that though all the Jews will reach Auschwitz...
...least 35 of the students who gathered for the special class at Benson Polytechnic High School in Portland, Ore. last week had reason to feel a little ill at ease. They were all local high-school teachers, and there they were with 45 of the brightest boys and girls in town, taking a course as if they were still in their teens. "Let us not let our blood pressure go up." said Instructor William Matson soothingly. "Let us not let our hearts beat too fast." Then he began his lecture on the complexities of modern mathematics...
...hustled into Chicago's domestic relations court on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Said police: brunette Elizabeth Ann Roberts, Hefner's pert Miss Playmate for January, was not a fetching college freshman of 18, as reported in Playboy, but a fetching high-school senior of 16, and thus, in the eyes of Illinois law, too young to appear unclothed in the public prints. Also charged: Mrs. Cathy Darnell, Elizabeth's 39-year-old mother, an unemployed showgirl...
...headstrong child, with a habit of holding his breath until he got his own way (his mother finally cured him by throwing a pan of cold water in his face). Raised in Madisonville, now part of Cincinnati itself, Neil was the youngest of three sons of a high-school physics teacher. He was reared on the run: from his earliest memory, all the considerable McElroy family energies were turned toward earning and saving enough money to send the three boys to college. The boys raised chickens in the backyard, delivered newspapers and advertising dodgers along the same route...