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...Example. In Brownwood, Texas, Leslie F. Smith, advertising salesman for the Frazier Publishing Co.'s traffic safety manual, was arrested for making an illegal turn, driving without a license, driving on the wrong side of the road, driving while drunk...
...swatches out of textbooks, the classe nouvelle first teaches them how to study: how to use a dictionary, take notes, boil material down to essentials. Trying to breathe new life into old subjects, teachers organize field trips to museums, factories, galleries. Homework is reduced in favor of class projects, manual training, undergraduate magazines and newspapers. By last week, France felt that it had gone a long way in sweeping some of the cobwebs out of the classroom. But that did not mean that the traditional curriculum was being thrown out entirely. After all, said one ministry official...
Personality: Has a modest manner, a quizzical mind, a pungent tongue. Likes to box, wrestle, ski. At 16, wrote a Judo manual in Arabic, entitled How to Defend Yourself, which became an Iraqi army text and a Bagdad bestseller. So far has shown little interest in politics...
TIME'S circulation procedures were first mechanized in 1946, when the number of subscriptions started out growing the original manual operation. But 540 keeps a year-round staff of more than 1,000 people to do what the machines cannot. All inquiries, plaudits and complaints are checked and answered personally, although one mistrusting man several years ago fastened his letter to a large shingle, said: "Now try and file this...
...possible to end it on favorable terms, the U.S. has need of a new species of general, to parry a kind of enemy that was not described in the textbooks at West Point in 1917, and whose trucemaking tactics are not to be found in Army Field Manual 27-10 under "Intercourse Between Belligerents" or "Capitulations and Armistices." The U.S. has not grown such a general yet, but a good many generals, late in life, are going through elementary classes. Now that Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall and Clay are in mufti, Mark Wayne Clark has probably had more such political experience...