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Thousands of copies of a Ceremonial Hymn to NATO were recently distributed to British schoolchildren with the suggestion that they sing it at prayers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO: Dove Without a Song | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...sugar factory-is beyond the planning stage. Banda's smiles are currently lavished on the U.S. aid missions, which since 1956 have spent $36 million on a variety of Ceylon's problems, from malaria control to extending the runways at Colombo airport. More than 1,600,000 schoolchildren get a daily glass of milk and a bun from U.S. surplus foods. Even glowering, anti-American Food Minister Gunawardena works closely with U.S. people on agricultural and irrigation projects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEYLON: The Muddler | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...bright schoolchildren eagerly took on extra, out-of-class work, the parents (now incorporated as the nonprofit Lakewood Foundation) have expanded the program. Last week the foundation was conducting five French and three science once-a-week classes for ages six to twelve (sample project: observing the effect of radiation on hamsters), plus two Russian courses for adults and children, and a junior "Great Books," program that probes such works as Little Women and 20,000 Leagues under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: After-School Scholars | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

Jauntily turned out in glen plaid suit and lemon shirt, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller went through one buoyant morning's routine in the State Capitol at Albany. He presided over a swearing-in, sat on the carpeted floor with delighted schoolchildren visitors, charmed a delegation of Methodist churchwomen. Cracked he, as a photographer posed a group portrait: "I have to be careful who I stand behind. My wife sees these pictures, you know." Amid the badinage, Nelson Rockefeller did not betray by so much as a flicker of an eye the fact that his reputation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Politician's Spurs | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

...this 22-word prayer an encroachment on the right to religious freedom? Recited in unison by schoolchildren, the prayer begins each school day in the suburban Long Island school district of Herricks. Last week five property owners in the district brought suit in the New York State Supreme Court to end the practice, waited for a ruling later this month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Offensive Prayer | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

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