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...offices of Syrian political and military leaders more accessible than in years, as if to prove all the earlier headlines untrue. The Syrian government, worried by the abrupt ups and downs of its currency, sought to reassure conservative Syrian businessmen that a leftist government in power need not mean expropriation. Three Syrian trade officials flew off to Moscow, anxious to justify the press stories of bountiful Soviet aid "without strings attached." They took with them ambitious requests for Soviet rubles to build roads, railroads and a Euphrates irrigation dam to rival those that Iraq is building downstream with...
...handed down by Chancellor Murray Reed of the State Chancery Court after a hearing on a petition filed by the secretary of the newly formed pro-segregationist League of Central High Mothers. Reason for the chancellor's decision: witnesses, including Governor Orval Faubus, testified that integration would inevitably mean violence...
...word Y-to-X-lo or -ro, Gordon reasoned, might mean "cumulative total," and the Akkadian word for that was kitmuru. Since the Akkadians did not distinguish between the o and u sounds, to could be tu, and lo or ro could be hi or ru. Then Y becomes ki, and X, mil, to make kitumuru...
...Algerian refugees in Tunisia." Although his answers in French were often cryptic in translation (by his 34-year-old son), his delivery was spirited, his hands always expressive. "Was he aiding the Algerians?" "Yes," said Bourguiba, his steely eyes flashing, "I help them . . . They are proving that they mean what they say when they say they prefer to be exterminated rather than live under the old regime...
Morale v. Achievement. "Learning by doing"-a sound slogan at first-often came to mean concentrating on any activity provided it was not intellectual. Self-discipline sometimes meant no discipline at all, the emphasis on individual differences did away with objective standards, the stress on cooperation frequently turned out to be conformity to one's "peer group," and the idea that the school must educate the "whole child" led the school to take on all sorts of responsibilities that properly belong to the family. Perhaps the most debilitating doctrine of all is the notion that the child must...