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...achieve "minimum standards" in first grade, one result is the "relaxed" second grade that goes little beyond repeating first grade. Mayer describes a second-grade class at the Mill School, Whittier, Calif. The kids are writing, "and everybody wants to write," but the bell sounds. " 'It's recess time,' calls the teacher. 'Oh, NO!' cry the youngsters. 'You just put your work down, and don't forget your idea,' Mrs. Mullen says with her endless cheerfulness. 'We'll come right back to it after you've played...
After the deciding vote on the resolution, debate resumed. Michael Hornblow '62, sponsor of the motion, asked for a recess to regroup his forces. When the meeting re-opened, a quorum was called since much of the large crowd had left. The first count was 19, the minimum needed to do business. Phillips asked for another call, however, and when only 18 members answered he declared the meeting adjourned...
...Congressmen to go home, where the votes are, and cock attentive ears to the voice of the people. If the voice comes through loud and clear enough, it can change a Congressman's mind about what stands he should take on what issues. In that sense, the spring recess is an occasion for a national summing up. And last week Senators and Representatives around the U.S. achieved remarkable agreement in their findings: the folks back home like President John Kennedy. They are fascinated by his vigor and by his virtuosity in juggling crises the way a gymnast juggles Indian...
...Pathet Lao guerrillas advanced toward Luangprabang, the royal capital. In the United Nations, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko truculently renewed the Communist offensive against Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. In Geneva, when U.S., British and Russian delegates to the nuclear-test-ban conference met again after a 3½-month recess, the Soviet delegate started off with a belligerence that appeared to rip apart the fragile little structure of agreement slowly pieced together since the talks began in October 1958 (see THE WORLD). Soviet diplomats spread the word that Khrushchev no longer cared about a summit meeting. And from behind...
...Geneva's Palais des Nations last week, representatives of the U.S., Britain and Russia sat down after a three-month recess to pursue once again the nuclear test ban that has eluded them throughout some three years and 273 frustrating sessions. As the 274th session began, Western negotiators were in a mood to make every reasonable concession as a final, acid test of the sincerity of Russia's loudly avowed desire to end all explosions of nuclear weapons...