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...splitting of one world into two worlds was Russia's act, not the U.S.'s. Speaking from the steps of Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson, on Independence Day, Harry Truman branded Russia's action "folly." Said he: "We have learned that nations are interdependent." If there is to be peace, nations must shape their policies "to support a world economy rather than separate nationalistic economies." As the greatest industrial nation of the world, the responsibility for that kind of peace devolved...
...incurably sentimental alumnus would deny that there was room for improvement at Charlottesville. Few U.S. campuses could match the beauty of the classic, tree-shaded University of Virginia "Grounds," laid out by Founder Thomas Jefferson. But 80-year-old Jefferson, matching the workmen through his spyglass from nearby Monticello, had dreamed of a Charlottesville that would be the "capstone of public education in Virginia"-a university for all the ablest citizens of the state, rich or poor. What it had largely become, said its critics, was an expensive finishing school for young...
...Question. In a sense, Hummon was the work of one Gibson Greer Ezell, an unknown storekeeper from little Monticello (pop. 1,746). One day just before last November's final election, Ezell ran a coony eye over the new Georgia constitution, discovered that it provided no clear answer to a question which had been bothering him and many other Georgians: "What if ailing Old Gene Talmadge died before he got inaugurated?" Ezell thought of an answer that suited him, and telephoned Hummon: "You better get some votes written in for yourself...
...owns smaller mines at Naturita, Colo., and at Monticello, Utah...
Thomas Jefferson felt that education's prime responsibility was to discover the gifted student and train him for leadership in his special field (the versatile sage of Monticello never dreamed that specialization in stenography would one day seem more desirable than Sanskrit). Andrew Jackson's philosophy, on the contrary, clearly calls for education to concentrate on raising the level of the mass...