Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...postal rates from 3? to 4? (lavender-colored Lincolns or gold-colored Bolivars) for first-class letters, from 2? to 3? for postcards, from 6?: to 7? for domestic airmail. Richer by $450 million revenue, Postmaster General Summerfield rosily called it "the beginning of the greatest period of postal progress in American history." Epilogue to an era, in the letters-to-the-editor column of the Chicago Daily News: "I have nothing to say, but I thought I'd just write one more letter to the editor before the Republican-economy 4? postage goes into effect...
...report from Cheam School, Charles, Prince of Wales, first heir to the throne to attend preparatory boarding school, showed an ambiguous relationship to the family tradition. With a 70, the prince led his 20-member class in geography. "In French," said a Cheam teacher, "he made excellent progress," i.e., 52; but "he did not do so well in maths. I don't think he would make an accountant...
...last week "just as soon as the U.N. can act effectively to ensure the independence and integrity" of Lebanon, Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold expanded his Observers Group to 200 and laid plans to increase the number of border watchers to at least 1,000. Said Murphy: "We are making progress. I think there is a good possibility that a President will be elected this coming Thursday...
...strengthened the bonds of understanding between Italy and her NATO allies. Our solidarity has been maintained; our duty as allies has been fulfilled." But, added Fanfani, the position in the Middle East requires "more thoughtful attention," and "we must now find a way to assist the peoples concerned to progress...
...their gloom, the conference members reported some progress. Teachers who aim first at providing conversational ability, with reading, writing and grammar added later, are gaining ground. Recordings and taped playbacks of students' own speech are proving valuable. Most encouraging statistic of the report: since 1952 an increasing number of school systems have adopted plans similar to the third-grade-through-high-school proposal of Conference Member Mary P. Thompson, curriculum consultant for Connecticut's Fairfield schools. By 1955, says the report. 270,000 children were learning foreign languages in U.S. elementary schools and that was as many...