Word: school
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clouds of grey smoke rose from hot-fat cookers on the floodlit high-school football field in Rochester, Ind. (pop. 5,000) as "Charley Halleck Day" sizzled to a close with an old-fashioned fish fry. Heading the well-wishers of Republican House Leader Halleck on his silver anniversary in Congress was touring Vice President Richard M. Nixon. At the flag-draped rostrum, facing 15,000 Hoosiers brimful of yellow perch and Republican politics, Nixon, after saluting Halleck, the crowd and the perch, said: "Now, I want to relate the international situation to this meeting we're having...
...point of fact, Arthur Summerfield's antismut cause is a good one; the mailing of pornography, especially to school-age youngsters, has become a serious problem. But by seeing smut where none existed, Summerfield had once more become an unwitting promotion man for professional publicists. Sighed a Summerfield aide: "We are just the fall guys in a publicity campaign...
When the doors of northwest Miami's Orchard Villa Elementary School swung open last month, only 18 pupils trooped in. Rattling about in the nearly empty school, which had been built to accommodate 430, were 14 whites and four Negroes, whose mingling was part of Florida's first attempt at integration. Last week the Dade County school board took action toward ending even that trickle of integration-not, as has happened in other Southern communities, by damming it up, but rather by drowning...
Stanford has taken another approach--integrating the summer session into the regular academic schedule so closely that the school operates effectively for four quarters a year. This cannot be called the four-quarter system, however, for there is no general rotation of vacations (though Stanford permits a student to leave for any term he wishes, with no red tape). Many teachers are able to work for the full year, and considerably more students can attend the University...
...summer school is gaining popularity on its own, but while it offers some students and teachers great opportunities, it fails to cope with some of the problems which the widely discussed four-quarter plan could handle...