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...Mother-in-Law, Too. Catholic Action reaches into every town, every slum, every factory and every village. Its agents are a strangely assorted phalanx-schoolteachers and schoolchildren, lawyers and factory workers, nuns and union leaders. At Catholic Action headquarters, pink-cheeked girl secretaries race through the long, whitewashed corridors, barely dodging pale, serious priests. They all take their orders from Catholic Action executives...
Last week for nearly five hours the House of Commons debated the pros & cons of his bill to make simplified spelling compulsory in all British schools, films and copyrighted literature. No foreigner, the bill provided, would be naturalized until he had mastered the new spelling. "Fourteen million schoolchildren," pleaded Dr. Follick, "are wasting their time over [the old] spelling." (One hundred fifty "fed-up" schoolboys wrote in to cry "hear, hear!") A simpler English comprehensible to foreigners, he went on, would be of inestimable value to international relations. Tory M.P. Christopher Hollis made a shrewd comment on this motion. Said...
...guinea pigs, the foundation, cooperating with the Poloris Co., which manufactures one type of ammoniated powder called Amm-i-dent, has chosen the schoolchildren of Mahopac, N.Y. (pop. 1,109). Some 500 Mahopac pupils from kindergarten through the tenth grade will be asked to brush their teeth twice a day with Amm-i-dent. Free X rays and periodic dental examination will provide a running check on the experiment. Its sponsors hope that the new powder will prove effective against decay, regardless of the tooth-owner...
...copy the shrine's twelve famous murals of the Buddhas and their disciples, the foresighted brought along a few electric heating pads to sit on. One evening a fortnight ago, one of the artists forgot to flip the switch before he left. Next morning, a party of schoolchildren on their way to visit the shrine saw clouds of smoke billowing from the temple's gracefully curved old roof...
...gets her share of praise, too. "Thanks to Señora Perón," he said recently, "more than 600,000 schoolchildren now have clothes, good food, books and games." As Secretary of Education, Ivan himself has shepherded 300,000 schoolchildren on "useful vacations" designed to get them better acquainted with their own country...