Word: samoan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outside Pago Pago, from 8:05 a.m. until 2:05 p.m., and attendance at the tuned-in schools is close to perfect. Teachers from the U.S. mainland carry the burden of the TV instruction, live or on tape. Every classroom has a receiver with a 23-in. screen, and Samoan teachers with lesson guides follow up when the TV instructor is done. A U.S. principal lives in the village, helps teachers follow the curriculum...
Basically, the courses are the three Rs geared to Samoan culture, though math, history and science are taught on a secondary level. Much time is spent on introducing the concept of change. "It may seem simple," says Vernon Bronson, research and development director of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters, which helped to set up the new system, "but to the tropical Samoan, such concepts as change in season in temperate climates are enormously confusing." Also difficult is teaching world history to isolated students who may not even see a stranger all year...
...SWISS SKY RIDE charges a big 75$ for a four-minute cable-car trip but sends the traveler soaring 115 ft. above Samoan fire dancers, Burundi drummers, Guatemalan marimba bands and Swiss yodelers...
...SWISS SKY RIDE charges a big 75? for a four-minute cable-car trip but sends the traveler soaring 115 ft. above Samoan fire dancers, Burundi drummers, Guatemalan marimba bands and Swiss yodelers...
Wray's argument was enough for Samoa's Chief Judge Arthur Morrow, 71, former dean of Iowa's Drake University Law School. Amazing the lavalava-clad spectators, Morrow declared the Samoan civil rights law null and void. Moreover, at Wray's request, Judge Morrow approved the arrest of Governor Lee's prosecutor for arresting Brown without a warrant (possible penalty: a $500 fine, a year in jail or both). Said one sober Samoan as he left the courtroom: "We now know that the American Constitution means something in American Samoa...