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...another elected ex-dictator. It was a moment for the U.S. people in general, and the State Department in particular, to face a distasteful fact: with these changes, all the South American republics except Uruguay will be governed by dictators or ex-dictators. Some of the governments still profess to be well disposed toward the U.S. and its ideas of democracy. But it is painfully clear that those ideas are on the defensive -and losing ground...
...record was held briefly in 1852 by the Baltic, 2,664-ton sidewheeler which averaged 13 knots. Cunarders profess they are unconcerned by the new threat. Sniffed Cunard Chairman Fred Bates: "Speed for the sake of speed has not entered into our reckoning...
...annual conference of Britain's Library Association, Author-Theologian C. S. Lewis hada few words to say about the old controversy of fairy tales v. "realistic" stories: "What profess to be realistic stories for children are likely to deceive them. I never expected the real world to be like the fairy tales. I think I did expect school to be like the school stories. The fantasies did not deceive me. The school stories did . . . Some people contend that we must try to keep out of a child's mind the knowledge that he is born into a world...
...Perhaps the greatest single change that one could hope for in the immediate future," he said, "would be a burying of the hatchet between the professors of liberal arts colleges and so-called professional educators. The two feuding parties," he continued, "have been on the one hand those who profess a knowledge of subjects, and on the other those who profess a knowledge of education, or are teaching in our public schools...
...overdose of professional guidance services can lead to a specialization in which the faculty feels less responsibility for the students as people, leaving the emotional and personal areas to those who profess to be trained to deal with them...