Word: scale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...season's one good comedy, William Inge's Bus Stop, was its most generally satisfactory play. If clearly small-scale work with a touch of formula about it, it made up in vividness and humor for what it lacked in originality and depth. Comedy otherwise was never more than spottily bright. Clifford Odets' The Flowering Peach had engaging scenes but an eventual monotony, while a succession of Rainmakers and Reclining Figures rained too frequently or reclined too long...
Progress & Poverty. Meanwhile, partly because of its paltry teacher salary scale ($85 to $420 a month), the nation faces an eventual shortage of at least 20,000 teachers. The Rennes school system spent months trying to find 35 qualified instructors in mathematics and natural history. A typical secondary school in Cherbourg spent two years looking for a physics teacher, and in 1954 Paris was short 160 science teachers. But of all of France's educational headaches, poverty is, in a sense, the least. The major problem that the ministry was facing last week: the very nature of the school...
...last summer Norman Dodd, research director for the House Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations, labelled the Fund for the Republic as "a huge slush fund for a full-scale war on all organizations and individuals who have ever exposed and fought Communists...
...promote peace. Almost $20 million was spent in Asia to develop the educational and economic institutions needed to put democracy on a firm basis. In Asia, the Foundation has experimented with indigenous agricultural and technical procedures which, if successful, can be applied to a nation on a larger scale. Equal emphasis has been placed on training leaders and technicians who can disseminate these new methods and ideas...
...largely to the lack of a clear policy on the part of the U.S. Government and the airlines. Both the Post Office Department and the Civil Aeronautics Board are anxious to encourage helicopters, and both have been experimenting for years. But the program is sporadic and small-scale. Now the Government must decide whether to push ahead rapidly or let helicopters limp along without help...