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Like many classics, this work, first published in 1678, has been read for generations only by schoolchildren and scholars. Nancy (Love in a Cold Climate) Mitford's new translation is an attempt to prove that it deserves a larger audience. Translator Mitford has tackled an almost desperately lost cause, for the chief interest of the book is still a curiosity interest: The Princess of Cleves happens to be the first novel that is recognizably "modern...
...almost six years, the Department of Health had added small amounts of sodium fluoride to the drinking water in Newburgh, N.Y.* (pop. 31,924). To act as "control" for the test, the city of Kingston (pop. 28,869), 32 miles up the Hudson, went without fluorides. In both towns, schoolchildren between the ages of six and twelve were methodically checked for signs of cavities...
Knowing the Rules. Rowan started his tour at McMinnville (pop. 7,599), and found it little changed. The drugstore would still not serve him water in a glass, gave him a paper cup. Negro schoolchildren could still get books from the public library only by sending their teacher for them. But there were a few differences. Amid the shanties of "Niggertown" were rows of neat new houses which Negro veterans had built, with federal...
...attempted assassination of President Truman by Puerto Rican Nationalists last November, flew to Puerto Rico last week. There she received from the hand of Governor Luis Muñoz Marín a medal and a gift of $4,816.59, made up of pennies given by Puerto Rican schoolchildren. Said Mrs. Coffelt: "I, like any other American, cannot hate a country for an act committed by one of its citizens. I shall always remember the kindness shown to me by the Puerto Rican people...
Marxism for Schoolchildren. Another terrorist tactic is to enter a school, cut the telephone wires, hold up the teacher, go into the classes, make fiery Communist speeches to the children, take away their identity cards and, after 20 minutes, skip. Identity cards have been issued because of The Emergency, and they apparently bother the terrorists, who are trying to break up the card system...