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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teachers. Worley saw it differently: "I concede the right of administrators to compel me to guard the footbridge on the day of football games, to patrol the boys' washrooms, and to supervise night basketball games. However irksome I might consider those demands, they do not trespass on the one area of education that is mine alone-the classroom. As long as my competency is accepted, I am the expert in the classroom...
...because their lives are being wasted." Britain's Ministry of Education pooh-poohed the idea, but Taylor persisted with a plan to set up a two-year college in a grimy, abandoned Leeds school building. This fall the unenthusiastic ministry finally agreed, and Taylor was in business. After one newspaper ad, "we were inundated with replies, and the telephone didn't stop ringing for weeks." For its 100 places, the college got 3,000 inquiries, 1,400 applicants...
...married. Going back to school, they say, has brought many a family closer. Impressed husbands are tackling the dishes at last, and housewives who were bored before are now hitting the books to the awed astonishment of their children ("Mummy will soon be as smart as teacher," boasts one five-year-old). "There aren't any dodgers among us," says Pamela Buckley, housewife. "We're here because we want to be here. We've just got to make good." Says delighted Educator Taylor: "It seems as if there are literally thousands of older people ready to jump...
...When Eugene Gleason, World-Telegram reporter, goes to work on an assignment which calls for exhaustive digging, nothing halts him," glowed the New York World-Telegram and Sun last June. "Time is of no consequence: he will work 24 hours without thought of rest. Weather never daunts him . . . No one awes him." The paper, about to start a new series by Reporter Gleason, listed some of his exploits: he had discovered the cause of a fatal 1956 explosion on a Brooklyn pier (improperly stored explosives); he had uncovered skulduggery in Manhattan's slum-clearance program; he had broken...
...both Economist records. But however encouraging such figures may be to Economist editors, they fully realize that what matters most about the Economist is not how many readers it has, but who its readers are. And the sort of people who read the Economist have made it one of the world's most influential publications...