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...relative importance or practicability" of the 14 educational goals listed in the White House Conference report [Dec. 19]? Naturally, Chemist Joel Henry Hildebrand insists that mathematics and science are the most important. Yet nothing is either practicable or important if never used. Those who bemoan declining registrations in high-school math and science courses should first survey the extent to which these subjects are subsequently used...
...offense is human destruction as surely as that of the murderer. In truth and fact, it is 'murder on the installment plan.' " The death penalty, he added, should be imposed only in an extreme case, such as that of a peddler who made addicts out of 40 high-school students in San Antonio. ¶ At least 50 new agents should be added to the Federal Bureau of Narcotics staff...
...Houston high-school auditorium, 350 depositors in Texas' U.S. Trust & Guaranty met in an angry mood last week. They were gathered to discuss ways to get back the savings they lost when Albert Benton Shoemake brought U.S. Trust down into bankruptcy (TIME, Dec. 26). In the middle of the meeting, a speaker interrupted with a surprise announcement: Insurance Man Shoemake had just shot himself. Bitterly, some of the audience broke into vengeful applause...
...that its students have never read better. On the other hand, Associate Professor John Jordan of the University of California's English department has noted that half of U. of C.'s applicants regularly flunk the English entrance examination. "If 50% of the top 20% of the high-school graduates cannot pass the test," says he, "it seems to suggest that, for one reason or another, the students are not very well prepared by the public schools...
Just as Uncle Bob planned, Bill grew up to be a southpaw. But baseball was forgotten when the family moved to Oakland, Calif. Like any other youngster. Bill tried to imitate his older brother, who was a flashy, high-school basketball player. On the court Bill was ambidextrous, but he was mostly Pogo-stick legs and gawky elbows, too awkward to make the regular team until his senior year...