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...personal fortune, which is one of the biggest (an estimated $100 million) in the state. Over the past 17 years, he has also come to mean a lot more to the citizens of Flint (pop. 163,000). Through his Mott Foundation he has brought supervised recreation to thousands of schoolchildren. He has set their parents to studying hundreds of different courses in adult night classes. And he has changed the Flint school system into one of the nation's liveliest...
There is something more than poetic justice in the fact that for 50 years English schoolchildren have gleefully sung
Bargain hunters found plenty to choose from. Artists ranged from such established figures as Ogden Pleissner, Dean Fausett and Luigi Luciono to Housepainter Patsy Santo, local farmers, housewives and schoolchildren. Prices began at $15 and ran up to $3,500. Many buyers were year-round citizens. There were also some big-name summer people who showed up with their checkbooks ready, among them Merck & Co.'s George Merck (TIME, Aug. 18), Lambert Co.'s Gerard Lambert...
Right from grade one the French believe in making schoolchildren work hard. At nine, a French child is already being stuffed with Chateaubriand and Rousseau; he parses sentences from Hugo and learns all about the Edict of Nantes. At 14, he must begin to dip (in English) into the works of Swift and Poe. By the time he gets to his "baccalaureat" exam, he must know his Tacitus and answer such questions as "What did P. A. Touchard mean when he said of Montaigne: 'Before everything and despite everything, Montaigne is alive...
...publishing house as the worst offender, he banned its third, fourth, fifth and sixth-grade readers. Last week cops raided schools and stores to confiscate Estrada books. Congress lent a helping hand: it made Eva Perón's The Explanation of My Life required reading for all schoolchildren...