Word: localism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...local elections, Adelabu drove to Lagos to confer with colleagues in the capital on how best to defeat the candidates of Obafemi Awolowo, Prime Minister of Western Nigeria and chief of the industrious Ijebu tribe. Returning home, Adelabu was speeding through the constituency of his rival, Awolowo, when his car sideswiped another and crashed into a ditch, killing Adelabu and two of his relatives. Many of his supporters could not believe his death: having survived 18 "political" trials in five years with no more punishment than a few chiding words from presiding judges, Adelabu was believed to have a charmed...
...time he had turned 16, Herbert O. Yardley had a head start down the road to juvenile delinquency. His mother died and left him $200, and his father left him to fend for himself. Furthermore, he had a taste for high life in the local saloons, and at the turn of the century, Worthington, Ind. was loaded with them. But Herbert was saved by sport. Monty, the boss of his favorite barroom, was a gambler who taught his young customer the finer points of that great indoor game-poker...
...only other qualification the note that he owns a typewriter. Keats's notion is that if the public wants better education, it should form "citizens' grand juries"-school boards frequently are too secretive and P.T.A.s too social to be useful-to make calm and exhaustive investigations of local schools. Then suggestions should be made and enforced...
...whether a home economics course is necessary, but rather ask this: Is ours the kind of society where the girls best learn from their mothers? Must we ask the school to offer courses in driver training, or could the same end be accomplished simply by asking the local constables to be more choosy in the granting of drivers' licenses? What, exactly, is our school's job? Is it not to meet only those educational needs which cannot be as well or better met somewhere else...
...nationwide test, to be given when children enter high school and again before they graduate-checking local scholarship with the national average-is favored by 59% of the principals. The reason most principals give: the test would help awaken parents in educational disaster areas, gain support for raising academic standards. Another question on standards showed wide division: "Some people say that colleges should raise their entrance requirements, making it harder for high school graduates to enter. Do you think colleges should do this...