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...bright student, the high school offering some elementary courses for the slow student. Bright students would go right to college from high school, average or slower students spending varying periods in the junior college preparing for college or undertaking vocational studies. Throughout their schooling, students would be knit together in groups of their own age for all nonacademic activities...
Grant forms volunteer retrainees into close-knit groups of 20 men who spend all their waking and sleeping hours with the same group. Says Grant: "Group living puts pressure on them. Now each is living with 19 others who have the same outlook. His opportunities to blame someone else are minimized. You give him rope, finally make him aware that he's hanging himself." The one essential that all Elliott inmates have in common is their tendency to act out antisocial behavior which most people express in words, or repress within themselves. "Acting-out" problem cases have been regarded...
...American people in the President. The phenomenon was given sharp illustration last week as Mr. Eisenhower toured through Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, meeting the people, eating barbecued chicken, fishing in New England streams, and being plied with gifts of heifers, chickens, trees, shirts, boots, a red knit cap, a chain saw and a sculptured tablet of granite. As he moved through dairy country, where his Administration's farm program had sharply cut federal subsidies, farmers stood by the roadside and cheered. At the hamlets, at the intersections and on farm mailboxes, there were homemade signs that read: "Welcome...
...designed a uniform for the Red Cross Motor Corps, brought back the knit bathing suit, and after the war brought out a full, long-skirted style (when Paris later did the same, it was dubbed the New Look...
...Paris, working part time as a tracer of fashion sketches, and learned "the way clothes worked, the way they felt, where they fastened." Back in New York, she got a job painting rosebuds on lampshades for a store, did some modeling at B. Altman, became a designer in a knit-goods company at $45 a week-and was fired after eight months...