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...Revolution. I will not retreat one step or even one milli meter!" There he was indeed, full of bombast and braggadocio, munching cake and sipping orangeade - and apparently back on top of the heap. After five months of submission to his anti-Communist generals, Indonesia's Pres ident last week demonstrated the rea sons behind his reputation as Southeast Asia's most durable politician...
Challenging this notion is small (1,050 students), Quaker-founded Earlham College in Richmond, Ind. Its pres ident, Landrum Boiling, observes that "our justification for existence and for charging the relatively high fees we do must be that we do a superb job of teaching." Toward that end, Earlham got a $20,000 grant from the Danforth Foundation of St. Louis, under which Earlham teachers can invite experts in their fields to sit in their classrooms, observe their techniques and assess their abilities...
...Balance of Power: The Pres ident believes that Communist mo mentum, which picked up after Sputnik 1, has slackened. The balance of power is with the free world, but there remain many problems. The rich nations get richer and the poor nations get poorer, and Kennedy finds incomprehensible the attacks on U.S. foreign aid programs aimed at helping underdeveloped nations...
...proletariat," he once said. As an opportunistic Vice President under Jânio Quadros, he toured Red China, heaping praise on Mao Tse-tung's regime as "an example that shows how people can emancipate themselves from the yoke of their exploiters." Last week Goulart, now Pres ident of Latin America's biggest and most important nation, arrived in Washington for a seven-day visit to the U.S. A 21 -gun salute greeted him as he stepped from his 707 jet, and at the end of the red carpet stood President Kennedy. Said Kennedy: "We look...
...from Texas?" Faith v. Facts. Yet the defenders of local option often ignore the fact that U.S. schools are now controlled or influenced by many forces far beyond the local level. "However strongly we may believe that public education in America is still entirely a local matter," says Pres ident John H. Fischer of Columbia Uni versity's Teachers College, "the facts will not support our faith. Nor is there any likelihood that a nation whose regional differences diminish every year can meet its educational problems by ignoring com mon national needs." Statewide needs already take precedence over local...