Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dirty Stockpile. Anderson's vendetta reached a new low during an NBC-TV-radio Meet the Press show in April, when he attacked the Administration's position that it needed nuclear tests to develop clean bombs. Said he: "The military is steadily stockpiling dirtier bombs and . . . they have pulled bombs out of the stockpile and inserted something in that makes them dirtier . . . They want dirty bombs, and that's the best evidence in the world of what we're trying to do. We talk clean on the one side and stockpile dirty on the other side...
...after arguing the thesis that good practice meant good theory, Khrushchev made it clear which side of the argument his heart is on. Theory, said he, is sterile if it does not meet "the test of life. Theory, my friends, is grey, but the eternal tree of life is evergreen." As if to show how little he is handicapped by theory, Khrushchev, in the same week in which he argued that any Communist who accepted capitalist favors was inviting in a Trojan horse, also asked Washington for U.S. long-term credits...
...were recovered from a well into which they had jumped in a panic-stricken search for shelter. In the capital city of Colombo (pop. 424,816), dozens died and hundreds were injured when police and mobs battled through Lipton's Circus, a tree-shaded plaza where seven roads meet. Trains were derailed, buses overturned and burned; terrified passers-by had to submit to a language test at the hands of mobsters and if they failed, were beaten unconscious...
Several decades ago the Gary school system was established by William A. Wirt, who instituted a "work-study-play" program designed for mill workers' children. According to Roser, the Wirt System "was partially an attempt to meet the needs of a rapidly expanding population, with minimum building facilities, and partially a revolt against the typical 'Latin School' type of upper class education." The inclusion of extracurricular activities during the school day for credit was an integral feature of the system...
Unchallenged by the mediocrity of his course, the bright student often channels his excess ambitions and abilities into extracurricular activities. Music, drama, speech, and journalism are available in the clubs which meet for an hour each...