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Stop Dropouts. What makes Newton different is its refusal to mistake physical growth for educational progress. The town is proud that it planned its schools so well that it has never had a single day of double sessions, prouder that as a pioneer in spotting potential failures it has cut its dropout rate almost to zero. This concern wins rewards: since 1962, Newton has received more than $500,000 in foundation grants for refining new ways of teaching everything from nursing to geography to business history. When the Harvard Graduate School of Education tries out a new idea, from team...
...Government police arrested Dr. Joseph Danquah, 68, Nkrumah's opponent in the 1960 presidential election. A revered pioneer in Ghana's independence movement, Dr. Danquah was Nkrumah's first political mentor, but the two fell out and became bitter foes. Though police specified no charge, the government-controlled press called Danquah "a tribalist fiend and confusionist agent of Western imperialism...
...Marlborough exhibition (see color pages) shows that Pollock dripped most expressively, but he did much more than drip. The farmer's son from Cody, Wyo., was abstract expressionism's most inventive artist and its unquestioned pioneer of new forms...
...Human, rather than civil rights" will be at issue this summer when 20 Harvard and Miles College students begin a cooperative, pioneer program to tutor Birmingham elementary school pupils, Jen W. Clifton '63 said yesterday...
...tried to find out how nature really works." Architect Minoru Yamasaki calls him "an intense, devoted genius, whose mind, which is better than an IBM machine, has influenced all of us." Italy's famed Architect Gio Ponti feels that Fuller is "not only a romantic pioneer who sees 50 years ahead, but a genius who has already realized his dreams as to what humanity needs and how the world must look in the future...