Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that was the strategy, it was less than a whopping success. At a street-corner rally in New Orleans last week, Long was hooted down by a group of teen-age hecklers, forced to leave the microphone and totter back to his seat. And as his motorcade of crimson station wagons headed upriver into the Long dynasty's traditional heartland, in town after town the audiences were dwindling-and the disturbing sound of hoots and laughter was rising...
...Sahara about 2,750 kilometers (1,709 miles) from Monrovia," and closer in fact to Paris itself. Fallout, insisted the French government, would be "in regions of several hundred kilometers where there is no known life," unlike U.S. experiments within 80 miles of Las Vegas, Russian explosions less than 150 miles from Semipalatinsk...
...time ironically playing beside an American businessman on vacation-Ralph Thomas Reed, president of American Express Co. Reed was not the only one who wondered at the recklessness of the mysteriously affluent Italian. A Parisian gossip columnist wrote an item about "a young Italian, Mr. Grassi, who never bets less than one million francs at a time at roulette," and makes the casino manager "shudder...
...books and transportation, library supervision, an expanding guidance and testing program, adult and vocational education, special teachers for handicapped children. In contrast to Atlanta's private schools, which spend an average $625 per pupil (and in some cases charge extra for books, food, buses), the public schools cost less because they get federal money ($28 million in 1958), buy supplies on a statewide basis, get cost-cutting help from state experts all down the line...
Crackpots in the Classroom. Money is "only the beginning of the tale." Academic standards would fall. Tuition-grant schools could not hope to offer quality or variety of courses. Example: Little Rock's recently closed private Raney High School (TIME, Aug. 17), which offered less than 25% as many courses to its segregationist students as did the public Central High School, had no music, art, general mathematics or foreign languages. Nor would a wave of fly-by-night tuition-grant schools (most unaccredited) be subject to responsible supervision; fanatics and crackpots could easily control budgets...