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Guarding America's children against classroom Communism-or any other dogma-is a good cause; no instructor who propagandizes during working hours should teach youngsters of "tender" or any other age. But the Legislature and the Board of Regents have created a protection system which provides quite a primer for New York's children, who should be learning what democracy is really like...
...Primer. In Lille, France, Roger Debra-bandere, charged with stealing his 29th automobile since November, explained to police that he "just wanted to learn how to drive...
...book has one serious fault: it is written so far downhill, presumably for the largest possible Russian audience, that the prose is sometimes little better than primer talk. The interesting thing about The Train is that Panova still finds the same kind of Russian characters under the Soviet skin...
...Britain's embassy freshmen throughout the world 300 copies (marked "confidential") of a manual of polite procedure.* The elegant vice marshal of the diplomatic corps in London, Marcus Cheke (rhymes with peak), 43, with 14 years of embassy life in Brussels and Lisbon, had drawn up a deportment primer for the 200 raw recruits taken in by the Foreign Service over the past three years...
...give it one, the Association of Stock Exchange Firms was also at work. It had prepared a stock-market primer aimed at the non-investor. "There's no more mystery about [investing]," said the folksy little brochure, "than buying groceries, a suit of clothes or an automobile. And there is satisfaction, prestige and pride in owning stocks & bonds in corporations." Brokers hoped that the booklet would help them catch many a small customer...