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...subject of worldwide concern, debate, even bitterness. Reason: the free world faces the grave possibility of a shortage of money to use in financing its rapidly growing international trade and investment, partly because it has leaned too heavily on a couple of powerful currencies. The result is the loudest clamor in 20 years for a reform and updating of the world's monetary system?that motley of treaties and gentlemanly agreements through which the major nations have agreed to finance their commerce with one another...
Panel members eagerly heeded the admonition of Chairman Gardner that they were there "not to be lectured at but to be heard." The topic that stirred the conference's loudest and sharpest clash was the notion that federal grants may be followed by federal testing to assess educational results. Warned Commissioner Keppel: "The nation's taxpayers and their representatives in Congress will want to know-and have every right to know-whether that investment is paying off." John I. Goodlad, director of U.C.L.A.'s University Elementary School, proposed a highly selective sample testing of a representative...
...just the right man: Playwright George Bernard Shaw, who himself had exhibited a fatherly concern for the girls in Mrs. Warren's Profession. Well, mused Shaw in his reply, "the project seems pretty Utopian." For one thing, he wrote, the people engaged in the trade "are the loudest detractors of it," while its "protectors" are "of extraordinarily good character." But perhaps the union job "could be done by a very energetic, muscular and violent woman, with the devotion of a saint and the arbitrariness and executive power of a prizefighter." No one fitting that description appeared on the scene...
Gradually, as the howling machines disappeared into the hills, a hypnotic hush came over Clermont-Ferrand. In the pits, the loudest sound was the ticking of stop watches as mechanics and managers paced nervously to and fro. Even the public-address announcer stopped his chatter. The grandstand crowd sat in silence-eyes riveted on a spot 400 ft. below, where the winding asphalt track curled like a thin, black snake between two green hills. There, any second now, the leading car would appear. The noise came first: the rising nasal whine of a V-8 engine echoing off the hills...
Rising Chorus. The strength of Phyllis McGinley's appeal can best be measured by the fact that today, almost by inadvertence, she finds herself the sturdiest exponent of the glory of housewifery, standing almost alone against a rising chorus of voices summoning women away from the hearth. The loudest of the new emancipators is Betty Friedan, another suburban housewife and mother. Mrs. Friedan maintains in her bestselling broadside, The Feminine Mystique, that the college-educated woman who seeks fulfillment in domesticity will never find it, that the clever girl will either go mad in the kitchen or go forth...