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Bonn officials pooh-poohed the whole affair as an obvious effort to divide the West, and Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss declared that West Germany would "under no circumstances" change its policy. But the West German press and public clearly got a big charge out of all the unexpected attention. MOSCOW WOOING BONN AGAIN, boasted the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung; headlined another paper: MOSCOW CONTINUES SOFT WAVE...
...this picture accurate? Last week an overwhelming majority of high school teachers interviewed by TIME across the U.S. pooh-poohed it. Instead, they hailed a "salubrious" ferment in their classrooms. "This is the most exciting thing in my career," says English Teacher Harold R. Keables, veteran of 27 years at Denver's South High School. "There is a new appreciation of intellectual achievement. The kids are perhaps more serious, but not solemn or glum or dull. They are on fire with enthusiasm for learning...
Brazilians pooh-pooh any lasting effect from Quadros' flirtations behind the Iron Curtain. They argue that Quadros insists on trade first, before any serious talk of diplomatic exchanges. Of the $2 billion in paper deals drummed up in the East, realistic Brazilians expect only a fraction. Says a senior U.S. diplomat in Rio: "If Khrushchev thinks he can make a sucker out of Quadros, he's badly mistaken." Adds Foreign Minister Afonso Arinos: "Brazil will not recognize the Soviet Union offhand, and will not recognize Red China for two or three years-certainly not until it is accepted...
...forgotten Maria Montessori, the practical Italian idealist who founded her own brand of progressive education in 1907. Though once Americans acclaimed her, John Dewey's permissive disciples pooh-poohed her as too rigid, and only in Europe have Montessori schools made real headway. But last week, in a handsome new building in Greenwich, Conn., the nation's only "pure" Montessori school was dedicated. Whitby School is startling on at least two counts: it was founded by firmly anti-permissive Roman Catholics, and its old Montessori methods turn out to be a showcase of nearly every "new" idea that...
...Quite, quite sure," said Pooh...