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...predecessor set an arduous example. Retiring Vincent Massey, 72, in his 7½ years as Canada's first native-born Governor General, entertained 75,000 Canadians at Government House in Ottawa, traveled 200,000 miles across the nation, and-exercising a royal prerogative-gave holidays to 250,000 schoolchildren...
...Benz, the statesmen rolled off on the 22-mile drive into town. It took them 1 hr. 40 min. Church bells pealed, car horns honked, railroad whistles shrieked. Boys in Lederhosen, overalled factory workers, student nurses in starched blue uniforms, black-clad seminarians, tens of thousands of flag-waving schoolchildren shouted dozens of greetings, all meaning "I Like Ike." Eastward through the summer-evening haze, the President could make out the Hotel Petersberg, opposite Bad Godesberg where Neville Chamberlain stayed while conferring with Hitler on the road to Munich, 21 years before; northward lay the black cathedral spires...
...Tijerina could not speak a word of English. He was like thousands of other Mexican-American children: his mother taught him to read and write in Spanish only. And had he gone to school, he might still not have learned English. At the time (1920), Texas segregated Mexican-American schoolchildren on the basis of language-a discrimination usually as enduring as skin color. According to the odds, Felix seemed doomed to stagnate behind the language-discrimination barrier for the rest of his life...
...almost rebellious hostility toward threatened tax boosts and heavy governmental spending. "Wherever I go," said Boston Democrat John E. Powers, president of the state senate, "all I hear is 'cut that budget!' " Echoed Chicago Republican Albert Hachmeister, member of the state legislature: "Even parents of schoolchildren come to me and say, 'No more tax increases, please, not even for schools.' " Said San Francisco's Republican Mayor George Christopher: "It used to be a simple matter for a petitioner to get people to sign a petition for a new park. Today...
...Laos last week 600 schoolchildren wearing white shirts and black berets marched through the puddled streets of Vientiane in the first "antivice" drive in Laotian history. They carried "good'' banners, hailing the three Rs of "Revolution, Roads and Rice,'' and "bad'' banners condemning equally Communism, opium, prostitution, gambling and liquor. General Ouane Rattinkoun, 34, the Laotian chief of staff, watched approvingly as the bad banners were heaped in a pile, doused with gasoline and set afire. General Ouane. who has a Buddhist horror of going to extremes, says, "There is no question of making...