Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Poking about Hanuabada Village, a Port Moresby native quarter, Hubbard came across the village council clerk, Rima Gavera, sitting at a battered desk, engrossed in his reading. The reading matter: TIME. Clerk Gavera, a native Papuan, explained that he is a faithful reader of TIME (as are 1,000 other New Guineans), with a special interest. "I like stories about satellites," he said, "and TIME has the best ones." The other New Guinea tale from Correspondent Hubbard is reported in PRESS, Roll-Your-Own Newspaper...
...parts of the world, until Tibet gets back the freedom it enjoyed before the agreement of 1951. Though studiously polite about his host, the Dalai Lama gently hinted that he was getting a bit impatient with Prime Minister Nehru's obsession with getting along with Peking no matter what. "I hope," said he, "that the government of India will give our cause the same support, if not more, as it has given to small countries like Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia." As for a meeting between Nehru and Red Chinese Premier Chou En-lai on Tibet, that might be useful...
...Last week, at 9,000-ft.-high Alta in Utah's Wasatch Mountains, 26 psychologists, educators, industrialists and military men gathered in a National Science Foundation-sponsored meeting to consider creativity. With surprising unanimity, they concluded that 1) success in the scientific age is not simply a matter of intellect; 2) U.S. education is distressingly geared to uncovering the "bright boy" who can dutifully find the one right answer to a problem; 3) schools ignore the rebellious "inner-directed" child who scores low on IQ tests because they bore him; 4) teachers not only make no effort to nurture...
...impartial" statistics for the public's guidance. But the Labor Department and other Government agencies quickly let it be known that they wanted no part of the job. Reason: they know that even statistics on such an apparently simple factor as productivity are open to wide interpretation. No matter what figures the Government settled on, federal economists feel, they would favor one side or the other, add heat rather than light to the debate between management and labor. Said a Government labor expert: "Preparation of a factual Scoreboard by the Government would not help to settle any issues...
Most often the matter of color is not the core of a story. A young white boy cruelly squelches a not-very-bright Negro who tries bumblingly to make a pigeon coop for him; white passers-by discuss irritably what to do with a helplessly drunk white man, unload the problem on two gentle and respectful native policemen. Such cruelty and callousness exist independent of color, but the failings of Jacobson's whites show with merciless clarity against a black background. In the book's best story, a young white South African who has migrated to London anticipates...