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...hardly a sign of malnutrition that Utah ranks 37th in the U.S. in the amount spent on each [school] pupil [TIME, Jan. 11]. That is exactly where we rank with other states in our ability to support public schools, as measured by the total personal income per enrolled pupil . . . Despite our low rank in ability to support education, we nevertheless lead the nation in our efforts to do so, as measured by the percentage of personal income devoted to our schools. Comparison of the amount expended per school child is not always a good indicator of the quality of education...
Browning's knack was discovered by accident. He was practicing flips and somersaults under the admiring eye of Illinois Gymnastics Coach Charley Pond recently when both coach and pupil were struck with the same idea: Browning was clearing prodigious heights. They set up a standard high-jump crossbar, and Browning cleared 6 ft. 6 in., a good height for any high jumper. A bit later, he tumbled himself over the 7-ft. mark. His technique: a running, springing aerial twist into a backward handspring, which supplies momentum for a final backward double somersault up & over the bar. Some sportswriters...
Returning to the problem of individuality, President Pusey stated that every conscientious teacher hopes that his pupil's mind will hold within it some ideas "that are clearly his own, that have been felt, and so mean something personal and individual...
...past few years, Utah's schools have been showing definite signs of malnutrition. Utah ranks 37th in the U.S. in the amount spent on each pupil, and while enrollments have been rising at the rate of 5,000 a year, the number of teachers graduating from the state's teachers' colleges has been dropping at the rate of about 200 a year. Last summer, angered over their salaries, 400 teachers quit their jobs in disgust, and last fall Utah barely escaped a general teachers' strike. Even prosperous Salt Lake City has felt the pinch: its schools...
...more details gleaned and pieced together by its overseas staffers. World traces its story back to the late 1930s, when leftward-leaning young MacLean, then the ambitious foreign-office cub, and his future wife first made friends with an other young couple-Italian-born Scientist Bruno Pontecorvo, a favorite pupil of France's Physicist-Communist Frederic Joliot-Curie, and Pontecorvo's Swedish mistress...