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...Gaulle was at his happiest last week, touring the green and wooded hills of Franche-Comte, plunging like a stilt-walker amid cheering crowds, grasping outstretched hands, patting the heads of schoolchildren, and leading community sings of the Marseillaise.- He acted as if the Algerian problem were over and for gotten, and promised his listeners that now "we shall build Europe, the real Europe, the Europe of peoples, and thus the Europe of states and not of words, myths and schemings." But in Algeria there was more terror (see above), and behind him in Paris were frustrated legislators, politicians...
...eliminate fuzzily named "social studies" or "language arts" courses and reinstate plain names, such as history, geography and English. He proposed courses on Communism and free enterprise, and reinstatement of the singing of Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean (which he charged was dropped by antimilitarists who objected to schoolchildren singing "The army and navy forever Three cheers for the red, white and blue...
...showmanship went solid business sense. D.C. Transit eliminated most of its streetcar lines, improved services, added express buses. Net income has shot up 97% since Chalk took over-partly because of these improvements, partly because Chalk wheedled Congress into granting exemptions on fuel taxes and subsidies for carrying schoolchildren at reduced fares...
...fringe benefits already include a show to train local school board members, a recent production of Macbeth for English literature classes, a statewide monthly brushup program for doctors, and a projected junior college TV program for evening students all over South Carolina. But the vital change is among schoolchildren, now getting a taste of expert teaching for the first time. For thousands of her classmates, one ninth-grader sunis up: "I've learned more this year than I did in the seventh and eighth grades put together...
From Blotter to Front Page. MOLESTER OF CHILDREN STALKS S.F., headlined the Examiner, resurrecting-and inflating-the case of a man who had been following, but not molesting, schoolchildren in the city's Sunset district since...