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Originally, junior high schools required their students to study algebra and foreign languages in the seventh and eighth grades. Urging a partial return to this plan, Conant suggests that junior high schools institute "elite" classes...
...pious who came to him hoping for instruction in prayer and contemplation would usually find themselves turning mattresses for the sick in hospitals. One woman (he was not partial to women since one had tried to seduce him ) complained to Philip that she was covered with lice from her hospital work, and his response was to tell her to eat one of them. He loved to lead pilgrimages to Rome's seven basilicas, and they took on the quality of gay outings, complete with plenty of food and wine, in which nobles rubbed shoulders with peasants and workmen...
Leverett's towers glowed with a dim bleakness last night under a partial blackout imposed by John J. Conway, Master of the House. Conway's reason: some 30 of the lightbulbs set in the ceilings behind the windows have exploded over the past few days. Under the circumstances, Conway advised tower inhabitants to find some other sources of illumination. He did not prohibit candles...
...compassion, since his father's people had come down from the hills back of Knoxville. But Agee also felt that he was an alien and a spy, prying into the lives of an "undefended and appallingly damaged group of human beings." He tried to find at least partial absolution in sleeping in beds that swarmed with fleas, lice and bedbugs, gasping through the offal stench, and ignoring his nausea to "eat for a few weeks what a million people spend their lives eating...
...sanctions first and supervised elections second; then, at the insistence of Arcaya, it was put aside for discussion at a separate meeting this week. The sentence against Trujillo-which sent Trujillo's delegate walking out in protest: 1) breaking of diplomatic relations down to the consular level; 2) partial economic sanctions, starting with an embargo on arms...