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...successful admin istration of the federal tax laws." At local Banneker Junior High School, Teacher Steen, showing her ninth-grade pupils how to deal with tax forms, went after Internal Revenue teaching aids, soon sold the tax collectors on a large-scale program of teaching tax know-how to schoolchildren across the nation. Result: more than 23,000 schools used the service's materials in tax lessons last year; this year, 7,000 more schools will follow suit, save the Treasury millions in future errors. Cost (last year...
...states to abandon the wait-and-see lethargy of state capitals, has tackled the problem on a statewide basis. The state has asked permission to file a brief next month as a friend of the Supreme Court. Tennessee's brief is expected to suggest that schoolchildren be integrated gradually, beginning with the first grade and moving up through the grades as the years pass. Said State Solicitor General Allison B. Humphreys: "The question [of segregation] was settled by decision last May. We see no point in further arguing that issue." Meanwhile, Tennessee schools will stay segregated for this semester...
...Normandy, the checkup showed, children from 18 months up drink the local Calvados (homemade applejack) at meals and between meals. In the Vendée, schoolchildren pack a bottle of wine in their lunch baskets; if school is far from home, they take an extra bottle to fortify them for the long trip back. In La Roche-sur-Yon, a three-year-old boy was admitted to a clinic after his family had tried to cure him of worms with dosages of Pernod. In a town near by, a 19-month-old infant died of acute alcoholism...
...cheering, affectionate Asians: Malays, Chinese and Indians. From the turbaned representatives of nine Malayan potentates, Templer got a silver cigar box. On his wrist he wore a bamboo bracelet, given by the aborigines of far-off Negri Sembilan, to ward off evil spirits. Parading before him were Chinese schoolchildren, waving banners...
...that killed the NRA, 1952's steel seizure. None of them, except the Dred Scott case (reversed by the Civil War) was more important than the school segregation issue. None of them directly and intimately affected so many American families. The lives and values of some 12 million schoolchildren in 21 states* will be altered, and with them eventually the whole social pattern of the South (see EDUCATION). The international effect may be scarcely less important. In many countries, where U.S. prestige and leadership have been damaged by the fact of U.S. segregation, it will come as a timely...