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...Hospital, served with anti-isolationist groups before Pearl Harbor. In Manila, Mrs. Cowen's relations with socially prominent Filipino women have not always been marked by intense cordiality. Last week she went to a luncheon of 200 Manila clubwomen to talk about the opening of a new charity playground. After congratulating her audience on their good works, she delivered a blistering attack on the irresponsibility of wealthy Filipinos. She said...
...playground] is only a tiny drop in the bucket of things that are needed by so many people . . . throughout the Philippines. And it is need . . . that is causing discontent within these islands and proving a fertile breeding ground for Communist agitators. For what does Communism promise a hungry, landless, debt-ridden, discontented person? Why, a full stomach, some hectares of land, cancellation of what he owes-and a better way of life. Is it any wonder that people who are without hope listen to the sound of these Pied Pipers...
...properly. In the town of Soquel, for instance, they found that the elementary-school population had risen more than 16% in a single year, that the school had tried to make room for 282 more pupils than it should, and that it had only half the desirable amount of playground space. In Los Altos, the Stanford group recommended a $1,185,408 building program-a recommendation complete down to the last bicycle rack and incinerator...
...program of diminishing returns. Emphasis on "dinner table education" and tutorial work would decline as grades became all-important. With draft boards sifting greedily through the D's and E's, the universities would sponsor rat races for grades. And the plan would recognize no difference between an educational playground and a college like this...
...Island's fashionable North Shore have been watching Killenworth-the late George Dupont Pratt's fabulous 52-room country house-with jaundiced eyes ever since the Soviet Purchasing Commission bought it in 1946. When the Russians rimmed its 37 acres of lawns with barbed wire, set up playground equipment and converted it into a recreation center, nearby estate owners fairly gobbled with indignation...