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...capacity as a "tribune of the people," Skolnik will attend executive committee meetings but may not vote. He may, at his own discretion or at the request of one-fourth of the members, call general membership meetings to amend the constitution...
Johnson called for "a national policy for rural America, with parity of opportunity as its goal." He listed some "harsh facts" of U.S. rural life, including such statistics as: 46% of rural families have incomes of less than $3,000 a year; one-fourth of all farm homes and one-fifth of all rural nonfarm homes are without running water; the educational attainment of rural dwellers lags two years behind that of their urban cousins, and health facilities are poor by comparison. "These deficiencies," the President said, "leave too few resources to support education, health, and other public services essential...
...math now reaches about 70% of the students in Grades 7 through 12. This year nearly half the high school students studying physics are learning by discovery; one-third of the chemistry students and one-fourth of the biology students are taking completely revamped courses. Along with the curriculum changes came a new technology -programmed instruction, audio-visual equipment, classroom television, computers-which freed schools from the idea that one teacher standing before a class of 30 children was the ideal form of instruction...
...among other things, a convicted embezzler (of some $2,500 in postal funds), a monumental drunkard, an almost compulsive liar, and an addicted hemp smoker. More important, he was a disaster as Prime Minister. Although his party barely controlled less than one-fourth of the seats in Parliament, he refused to make the political compromises necessary to form a working coalition government, quickly alienated almost every important power base in the Congo. Headstrong, unstable and perpetually frenzied, Lumumba never even tried to govern. His army rebelled less than a week after he took office; his Belgian civil servants fled...
...nominate the Chairman of the Communist Party in the People's Republic of China, Mao Tse-tung. This insidious and inscrutable leader of one-fourth of the world's population now holds his finger on the trigger of China's newly developed atomic device. He most certainly altered the course of history...