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Easy Does It. While the schools score above average in the number of basic courses they offer, these courses are getting fewer and fewer takers. General enrollment has risen 26% since 1945, but with the exception of first-year algebra (up 11%) and solid geometry (up 28%), the number of pupils in all other mathematics and science courses has slumped. Physics is down 10%, chemistry 17%. Other academic subjects have also suffered: enrollment in social studies, which include one required year of U.S. history, has dropped 9%; first, second and third-year Latin are down an average 20%; fourth-year...
Cracking down on the critics who had risen in the thaw after his own attacks on Stalin, he persuaded Gomulka to stifle the young bloods who had stirred Poland. "We are all Stalinists," he announced. "God grant that every Communist be able to fight as Stalin fought." ("We say the name of God," explains Khrushchev, "but that is only a habit. We are atheists.") To Westerners who predicted that his destalinization program could be used to topple the Soviet empire, he shouted: "You will no more succeed at this than you will succeed in seeing your ear without a mirror...
...Great Hyphenator. For his career of building profitable provincial dailies, farm-born Frank Gannett was prepared a maxim-minded mother ("Little strokes fell big oaks") and the example of a father who was a failure as a farmer and hotelkeeper. After working his way through Cornell, Newsman Gannett had risen to managing editor of the Ithaca News before he bought a half share of the ailing Elmira Gazette in 1906 (for $20,000), later merged it with the rival Evening Star. Gannett started looking for other money-losing dailies to buy and merge-and soon won fame as the busiest...
...awaken a man of the rank of General Otto Ruge, Norway's commander in chief, Aase's mother asked her 17-year-old daughter to sit at the organ and sing him awake. Ruge was so impressed that he urged her to study. Since then she has risen to opera stardom in Europe. Once, following a performance, Flagstad herself appeared in Aase's dressing room and announced: "You are my successor...
Enrollment and concentration in the Classics Department especially in Greek, have risen sharply since last year, Eric A. Havelock, professor of Greek and Latin announced yesterday. Havelock believes the interest here in Greek in unique in this country...