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Since I came to the forum for the Cardinal's speech, I attempted to push these inconsistencies out of my mind and to listen to what he was saying. He continued his talk by pointing with pride to a couple of pastoral letters recently composed by American Catholic Bishops. One letter proposes a sane nuclear policy by blueprinting a systematic dismantling of nuclear armaments. The other, still in the draft stage, exposes defects in world economies and urges a sharing of wealth among nations as a means of ending poverty. There was, however, one regional pastoral letter which the Cardinal...
...beginning of the year. Defused inflation has in turn enabled central bankers around the world, including the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, to stimulate their economies with fairly easy credit. When the leaders of the seven major industrial countries meet for an economic summit next month in Tokyo, they may push even harder for growth by agreeing to lower interest rates or cut taxes. Walter Heller, who was chief economic adviser to President Kennedy, believes that the U.S. economy will start growing at a healthy 4% to 5% rate by the end of the year...
...other mothers and fathers are caught up in a phenomenon that educational psychologists call "hot-housing," trying to jump-start tiny students toward success. Since 1970, enrollment in early programs, both private and public, has surged from 4,104,000 to more than 6 million. Judging by the parental push, the trend will accelerate: at New York City's public Hunter College Elementary School, where two requisites for entry are a 135 IQ and a parental essay on the child, 1,500 applications pour in each year for 86 places in the pre-K and the kindergarten classes. The Sidwell...
...educators, such as California School Superintendent Bill Honig and State Commissioners Gerald Tirozzi of Connecticut and Gordon Ambach of New York, applaud the preschool push as providing more children with better education sooner. Comments Roberta Babb, director of Creme de la Creme: "For a long time, people didn't realize all the things that a little mind is capable of. We give them a big head start for school." But others are dismayed by a parental mania to overstuff little minds that are not ready. At the recent convention in Atlanta of the National Association of Independent Schools, hothousing...
...although it took until the fateful fifth for MIT to push a run across the plate, Harvard starter Janet Dickerman was working out of a hole all afternoon...