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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Teaching standards in the South are also below the national average. Because there are fewer teachers' colleges or even colleges, there are fewer teachers. This says nothing of the low wage scale; all wages in the south are low and the teacher's is hardly an exception. The lack of progress in a child is not necessarily due to poor teaching, for the social climate may also contribute to the lack of respect for academic subjects...
...Cooperative Tests of the Educational Records Bureau in American History, a score which would put an independent school student in the 78th percentile ranking would put him into the 99th percentile ranking of a Southern high school. If the same student ranked in the 50th percentile in the independent scale, he would place in the 91st bracket of Southern schools. These figures do indicate that the Southern high schools are considerably behind the private schools, but the Midwestern or Eastern public schools would rank somewhere in the middle of these two extremes...
...Standard Oil (N.J.), Socony-Mobil, Shell Oil, Gulf, Tidewater, Phillips Petroleum-for allegedly using the Suez crisis 19 months ago to fix prices of crude oil and gasoline, accused them of violating Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act by conspiring to restrain trade. It was the first large-scale criminal price-fixing case against the industry in more than 20 years, and one that oilmen promised to fight to the bitter...
...every company that slims down its operation, another discovers new ways of doing things that should have been in effect for years but were overlooked during the boom. San Francisco paint manufacturer W. P. Fuller & Co. has its first full-scale marketing division, which means, says one executive wryly, that "we now have sales planning instead of just 'Hip, Hip, Hooray, let's get out and sell...
...painful identification that the reader feels with Alleg cannot blot out the nagging realization that, as a Communist, Alleg himself has been a consenting party to the same tortures and to a degradation of man that, for its wholesale scale, dwarfs the war-begotten atrocities of El Biar. But nothing can justify the use of torture by any nation passing as civilized. Henri Alleg's ordeal is a parable that mirrors the failure of France's Algerian policy. Just as Whitman found a blade of grass sufficient to stagger an army of atheists...