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...most famous Renaissance masters. Back in 1920, Art Dealer Edward Fowles had thought so when he purchased it in Rome for upward of $40,000. Considered to be the original for a marble in the Bargello museum, the bust was then attributed to Andrea del Verrocchio or possibly his pupil, Leonardo da Vinci, by the Bargello's director and the late connoisseur Wilhelm von Bode...
...There is no account of the conniving and maneuvering that brought him from the status of a modest provincial lawyer to the leadership of Russia's first revolutionary government. Although he and Lenin were both born in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk) and his schoolmaster father had Lenin for a pupil, he met Lenin only once, and then only long enough to hear Lenin demand his dismissal and his arrest. He never knew Stalin or Trotsky. In general, personal insights are missing...
...nation still urgently needs more teachers and classrooms, but much has already been done. Teachers' salaries rose 45% from 1950 to 1960, while the average increase for all jobs was 29%; the pupil-teacher ratio declined from 27.7 in 1954 to 25.7 in 1960; the classroom shortage eased even as enrollment rose. As for the dropout problem, only 53% of Americans in the 25-to-29 age bracket had completed high school in 1950; last year the figure...
...policy, and thanks partly to Mrs. Hicks, Boston's schools remain racially unbalanced. At least 25 schools have enrollments that are less than 20% white. A new state law (TIME, Aug 27) requires schools to correct imbalance or forfeit state funds; Boston has until October to complete a pupil census, and then must submit plans to redress the balance. And U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel has begun an investigation to see if Boston's schools can continue to qualify for $2,000,000 in federal...
Precisely what the system was, nobody could say for sure. Investigators found about 1,300 "discrepancies" in grading and classed 190 of them as "flagrant." One history student got an F and a C in two marking periods, but averaged a C on his transcript. A pupil with two F marks in French got a passing D on his transcript, while a biology student with a Dplus, a D-minus and a D ended up with...