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...issue reportedly originated, however, with the publication of an advertisement in another student weekly, the Rampart, which was submitted by an organization not on the List. This advertised a mock trial of Senator McCarthy...
...Finally, and by no means least, today the private schools . . . are the last rampart against the dead hand of the educators of educators . . . They choose teachers on a basis of character, ability, and depth of knowledge of the subject to be taught, and are relatively uninterested in training in 'education' ... By & large, the private schools have not bought the dreadful theory that if a teacher has studied education, he does not have to have a real mastery of the subject he is teaching in school...
...Some kind of war machine, I suppose,' Bertrand said. 'Is it possible to use it for getting down on to a rampart...
...week's end, the three ministers took off for Ottawa for the first full-dress meeting of the North Atlantic Council since last December. There, the U.S. pressed ahead with construction of another rampart in the West's defense: the inclusion of Greece and Turkey in NATO...
...commander in chief, he has been fighting one of freedom's bloodiest and most crucial battles. He had left the front to come to the U.S. on an urgent mission: to see the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, and get more U.S. aid for Indo-China, the rampart against the Communist surge toward Singapore and the Indies...