Word: high
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stifled Scandals. French newspapers hinted at wider repercussions, at even more extensive political involvements. "The search for truth in this affair," cautioned L'Express, "will require justices with plenty of independence and magistrates with plenty of character and a high sense of duty." The lawyers on one side of the case included the attorney who once represented King Mohammed V of Morocco, and ex-Premier Edgar Faure, whose government had given Morocco its independence. Paris-Presse warned that "other characters" who have played "great roles in our postwar history" might come into the case, warned: "This affair must...
...reacted with petulance, incomprehension, irrelevancies, inept concessions. Red-eyed from a cold and plain fatigue, Fidel Castro still tried to run the country from Floor 23 of the Havana Hilton Hotel; he roamed through crushing mobs of sycophants in his $100-a-day suite. The hero's soft, high-pitched voice ran on for 20 hours a day, scolding, demanding, refusing, laughing...
...many such teen-agers in the bleak reaches of upper Manhattan's slums, high school is a waste of time-and public money. More often than not they drop out before graduation to take dead-end jobs, in a few years send to school another generation of hopeless pupils. But to some 450 youngsters at Manhattan's George Washington High School and Junior High School 43, an experimental teaching and guidance program offers a fair chance to complete high school, and for the brightest, a hope of going on to college. This week, after more than two years...
...project's ultimate goal is to find college candidates among once-hopeless students. It is a long, uphill fight. Of 148 students in the experiment's first class at Junior High School 43, only 38 were able to pass all their courses after they went on to George Washington in 1957. Without the experiment's hand-tailored education, perhaps five could have expected to pass...
...begin special programs for children at the very start of their education. If the school board gets the $500,000 it wants from the city, and perhaps another $500,000 from foundations, guidance programs will be set up beginning in elementary school and continuing right on to high school graduation...