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...Thank you for helping the poor, old, patient schoolteachers of America put the dunce cap on Rudolf Flesch...
...Died. Rudolf S. Hecht, 70, financier, board chairman of the Mississippi Shipping Co. and of New Orleans' famed foreign-trade center, International House; of a heart attack; in New Orleans. A lifelong advocate of U.S.-Latin American relations, he engineered last year's Inter-American Investment Conference, sponsored by the city of New Orleans and TIME Inc., to persuade U.S. businessmen to invest in Latin American markets...
...smiling relationship with President Benes, Zorin gathered together a team of Moscow-trained Communists and helped to organize the "action committees" that bored into every section of Czech life. After the coup he returned to Moscow, but was back in Prague three years later to supervise the liquidation of Rudolf Slansky and a score of other top Czech Communists on Stalin's suspect list...
...teaching reading with a system based on pure phonics, and now, far from repenting, they wanted permission to buy a phonic text. As the debate raged back and forth, one supervisor finally blurted out: "But if we approve this book, other people will think we are giving in to Rudolf Flesch...
...notable for anything as far as the U.S. public school is concerned, it may be that it will be remembered as the Year of Rudolf Flesch. In his bestselling book Why Johnny Can't Read (TIME, March 14), Flesch baldly accused the U.S. public school of having completely abandoned phonics (the letter-by-letter, syllable-by-syllable method of teaching reading) in favor of the word recognition or look-and-say method (memorizing words as wholes...