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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program would seem to be one effective way of organizing such a program. Preferably the first semester would consist of mathematics and could thus be skipped by anyone who had completed this equivalent. Such an introductory semester of math might give the rudimentary concepts of functions, calculus, and the limit--a requisite for understanding the idea of approximation and measurement. With a semester of math under his belt the student could continue on to a semester of basic physics--perhaps mechanics and thermo-dynamics--to get the fundamental concepts of energy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Program for Natural Sciences | 2/26/1959 | See Source »

Castro went to speak to a meeting of some 2,000 restaurant, hotel, nightclub and casino workers, and promised that gambling would be resumed this week. Afterward, he exploded to a friend: "This nonsense cannot go on. This is the limit. Instead of solving problems, the government is creating them daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Castro Takes Over | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

Deciding from the start to limit the repertory to rarely heard operas performed in their original language. Director Callaway set such a high standard with last year's staging of Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos that one critic feared listeners would expect a triumph every time. In fact there have been many triumphs, including standout productions of Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte and Monteverdi's Orfeo. Audience response matched the performances: paid season subscriptions rose from 322 in 1957 to nearly 2,000 this season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Capital Culture | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...justification whatever for the conclusion that only 15 per cent of the American can be seriously educated," Hutchins asserted. He called the effort to educate everybody to the limit of his capacity "indispensable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hutchins Attacks Conant Proposal On High Schools | 2/20/1959 | See Source »

Passed (381-20) by the House of Representatives and sent to the Senate last week: a four-year extension of the military draft, strongly backed by the Eisenhower Administration and the House Democratic and Republican leadership. A serious attempt to limit the extension to two years was made by Iowa's freshman Democrat Leonard Wolf, 33, backed by a large group of young Congressmen, including many first-termers. A voice vote was taken on Wolf's two-year amendment and declared lost. But it was more than close enough to call for a standing vote-which Democrat Wolf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Four More Years | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

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