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Author Griffin's insight into the gradations of genteel snobbery and the petty power ploys of aspiring bureaucrats reduces most sociological studies to the rank of kindergarten scribbling. Still, the sahib at sunset, whatever his stupidities, retains some of the pathos of an old family retainer sacked after a lifetime of bumbling but single-minded loyalty...
Core Course. In New Hyde Park, N.Y., when Kindergarten Teacher Florence Ann Mostler, 24, got married, 30 of her pupils showed up at the church, each carrying a shiny red apple...
...gradually isolating his father, the Emperor? Would he allow his son to be taken from him at the age of three to be raised by chamberlains in a separate palace? Akihito had said no, and his princess had even declared that she wanted her son to attend a kindergarten with "ordinary children." It was enough to make a conscientious imperial chamberlain wince. Protested one last week: "It is untrue that we resist change. Why, this prince was bathed in a duralumin basin that will be used again! At all previous imperial births, a tub made specially from fresh cypress wood...
...Costa Rica in the early '30s, Betancourt met a lovely, brown-eyed kindergarten teacher named Carmen Valverde. At night they walked, talked politics, fell in love. "He was very fiery," Carmen recalls. But Betancourt spent his days in the university library in San José, reading so endlessly that the librarian finally reserved a regular seat for him. In English, French and Spanish he devoured the standard works of the intellectual left-but did not neglect studying oil trade magazines from the U.S. Suddenly Betancourt decided he was a Communist. Today, irritated at the endless necessity of telling...
...Supreme Court's decision against school segregation: "It will be my purpose to implement that decision with no effort to sidestep, no effort by subterfuge or sharp practices to defeat the purpose of the court," launched a campaign with such tact and perseverance that Louisville schools, from kindergarten through high school, were completely integrated in 1956 without a touch of violence; of a heart attack; in Louisville...