Word: jeffersonism
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Educational Frills. Ed Murrow filmed a different sort of western for his See It Now program on education. By poking into Colorado's Jefferson County, where student enrollment has jumped from 6,000 to 19,000 in less than ten years, the CBS cameramen were able to examine in microcosm many of the educational growing pains that are racking the nation. Because the county was arguing whether or not to pass a $7,000,000 bond issue, Murrow caught arguments at white heat: from farmers and businessmen against the bond issue ("Let's cut out the educational frills...
...strict interpretation of the Constitution, Talmadge is of course able to make a fairly good argument that the Supreme Court does not have the power to regulate public school education. Although he lacks any depth as a political theorist, in him echoes of Thomas Jefferson and John C. Calhoun are clearly present. Talmadge sings the same songs that states' righters have sung for generations, and which to the South still seem good old tunes...
Oilman McCollum had reason to be staggered last week. Eighteen miles off Jefferson Parish, La., his company brought in the deepest well (15,058 ft.) in the deepest water (97 ft.) ever drilled in offshore exploration...
...lectures today and on Oct. 20 will be on "Electrical and Magnetic Properties of Atoms, Molecules, and Nuclei." They will be held in Room 250 of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory...
Near today's Montana-Idaho border, they followed the Jefferson River to what they thought (wrongly) was the source of the Missouri; one man straddled the little stream and "thanked his god that he had lived to bestride the mighty & heretofore deemed endless Missouri." At Lemhi Pass on the Continental Divide, they met Sacajawea's people, the Shoshones, who supplied them with horses and a guide...