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...morning last week residents of Malvern, Ark. (pop. 5,290) were startled out of their swivel chairs and veranda rockers by the unaccustomed blaring of a sound jeep rolling down Main Street. Right behind came a caravan of 30 bright orange school buses and eight heavily loaded trucks and trailers. Posters plastered on the buses said: Watch Arkansas Climb the Ladder of Education...
Eyes & Purses. Malvern was the first of 15 Arkansas cities and towns to get a look at the caravan. The state-sponsored trek, proceeding with all the hoopla of an oldtime circus, was meant as both an eye opener and a purse opener. For years, Arkansas has missed being at the bottom of the U.S. list in educational expenditures only because Alabama and Mississippi have usually spent less...
Whether they would get the new-fangled equipment would depend on the caravan's success and the local voting on tax rates next month. One Malvern businessman said, "If folks could see for themselves what is available for schools, it wouldn't be hard to create interest in school support...
...second, plus enough gas to go to &. from their furthest destination. Meat was scarce, British cooking was as dull as ever, and prices were comparatively high. But the intellectual fare was good. The Shakespeare season was scheduled to open this month at Stratford on Avon, the Malvern Festival to be revived with a new Shaw play in July, and the third Edinburgh Festival, in the island's stateliest city, to be celebrated in August...
...deep theologian who never lost the common touch. He became a socialist by 1906, when socialists were rare. In World War I, to his own vast amusement, he was put on a list of dangerous people compiled by Scotland Yard. In 1942, after he had led the Malvern Conference with its sweeping social program, Cartoonist David Low (no lover of prelates) drew him as a Samaritan among the super-godly...