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Education. For decades, wealthy Commonwealth students have journeyed to Britain's great schools and universities for their education. Since the war, a growing number of scholarships has enabled the poorest and brightest youths to make the journey, boosted the number of Commonwealth students in Britain from 1,000 to 40,000. More and more English students are traveling to study in the Commonwealth, contributing to the interchange of ideas and techniques...
Beetle-Bearing Bankers. Education began for David at New York's Lincoln School, an experiment set up by Columbia University Teachers College to try out the progressive techniques of Philosopher John Dewey. Lincoln's students were consciously drawn from every level of society, from the richest to the poorest. "The progressive education," Rockefeller says today, "was an exhilarating experience...
Exports: Peanuts. Per capita income: $50-$70. U.S. aid (1961): None. Britain's smallest, poorest, oldest West African settlement. Mav federate with Senegal...
...caught up with the 20th century, but diplomatic politeness makes it non-U to refer to these countries as "backward" or even "underdeveloped." To close the word gap U.N. delegates have developed a dictionary of discretion. Some euphemisms: Less privileged, less developed, developing, emerging, have-not, catchup, lowincome, needy, "poorest third" (used by Secretary-General U Thant), dependent, recipient and restless. Paul Hoffman, head of the U.N. Special Fund, is popularizing "modernizing nations," which seems to be catching on as the new vogue phrase. A still newer definition advanced by a U.N. correspondent last week: "Since these countries...
Honestus: U.S. farm programs produce a rich crop of ironies. The price-support system was started during the Great Depression to keep farmers from going bankrupt. Yet in actual operation, it helps the poorest farmers least; the really hefty price-support payments go to the big operators. A notable recipient of price-support payments in recent years has been the Delta & Pine Land Co., a sprawling Mississippi firm largely owned by British interests; it's been getting more than a million dollars a year in price-support loans on cotton. Another irony is that, while supposedly helping to preserve...