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...purchases were a cocker spaniel for the kids and a new coat-her first in three years-for Mrs. Cahill. The remaining $20,000 was the Cahills' money to live on during his three years at New Haven State Teachers College, where he is studying to become a high-school mathematics instructor. "We didn't have a ball," said Cahill. "We didn't even buy a television...
...Detroit, Air Force Chief of Staff General Nathan F. Twining suggested a method for meeting the critical shortage of high-school science and math teachers: "Within the Air Force are thousands of technically trained men who could teach high-school science subjects . . . Naturally, this is a voluntary program both for the schools and for our men. We see this as one way to help until the current teacher shortage is remedied...
...adolescence and are never heard of again. As it is, the boy's life is far from normal. Now living in Philadelphia, he practices four hours a day, goes to Curtis three afternoons a week and plays chamber music two more. Three nights a week he attends accelerated high-school classes, will graduate next year. "I don't miss doing things other boys do," he says. "Music is enough...
McCarthy explains his home town as "a town where a high-school youth had his choice on a Friday night between the movies and a free public lecture by T.S. Eliot or Robert Frost...
Another reason was recently presented by a visiting debator from little St. Anselm's College, where they are only two varsity "sports"--basketball and debating. "You get lots of top-notch high-school debators at Harvard, but you don't exploit them," he said. "If you bothered to give them as much coaching as we get, you'd win every debate...