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...When he was stricken with ileitis, the meeting, originally scheduled for June 25-26 to celebrate the 130th anniversary of Simón Bolivar's first Pan-American conference, was postponed (TIME, July 2). With Ike present, the gathering promised to be harmonious; perhaps the knottiest problem to be threshed out will be the wording of a declaration of Western political ideals. And such traditional enemies as Costa Rica's liberal President José Figueres and Nicaragua's perennial Strongman Anastasio Somoza will doubtless be on their best behavior...
...Knottiest Problem. By the end of his first-reader period, a child should have a reading vocabulary of 400 to 600 sight words; by the end of the sixth, 7,200 to 8,500. But some will have more and some many less, and this brings the teacher hard up against one of the knottiest problems in modern education. "I was in one rural school," says Superintendent Paul West of Fulton County, Ga.. "where there were 17 children in one class with IQs ranging from 48 to 152." Reading ability varies accordingly. In 1944, St. Louis found that...
...conflict of interests" is one of Washington's knottiest problems. From World War I, when Senator Kenneth McKellar probed Bernard Baruch's dollar-a-year men, to the Korean war, when Congressman Emanuel Celler investigated "Electric Charlie" Wilson's WOCs, the relations of the legislators to businessmen in Government has been marked by suspicion. Through five emergencies, including two world wars, some legislators have been unable to satisfy themselves completely that the Government, in taking advantage of the skills of businessmen, was not being short-changed somehow...
Unknown but Close. One of the knottiest of Protestant doctrines, to modern minds, is the one raised by the main theme this summer at Evanston: Christian eschatology-literally, "the doctrine of last things," which includes, among other things, the Second Coming and the end of the world...
...issue has been raised," cried the speaker. "The country is looking at what we do in the next half-hour." The issue-whether Communists should be allowed to teach-was far & away the nation's knottiest academic problem. In Boston last week at its annual convention, the powerful National Education Association (825,000 state and national members) took its stand...