Word: schoolroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...onto the red-carpeted platform of Helsinki Station. After an exchange of platitudes with Finnish Premier V. J. Sukselainen, resplendent in top hat and cutaway, the elder of the two visitors shouted out a greeting to a Finnish army honor guard. Like well-drilled children in an old-fashioned schoolroom, the soldiers chorused back: "Hyvaapaivaa, Herra Paaminesteri-Good day, Mr. Prime Minister." For the first time since their visit to Britain more than a year ago, Bulganin and Khrushchev had again taken their road show outside the Iron Curtain...
...Chief issues on the voters' minds last November, in order of importance, were 1) the international situation, 2) the high cost of living, 3) the schoolroom shortage and 4) a state right-to-work referendum. Only 2% said that the power issue mattered in the way they voted...
...than-average home movies. The producers have dramatized little of Schweitzer's eventful life, keeping the tenor of the story subdued throughout, almost underplaying their material. They review Schweitzer's early life in and around Gunsbach, in Alsace: the parsonage where he was born and grew up, his first schoolroom, and the quiet countryside he came to love as a boy all pass before the camera as expected. The audience moves leisurely along with the film to the time when, at thirty, Schweitzer made his decision to study medicine and travel to Africa as a missionary...
...while, it seemed as if the education of Prince Charles might follow the same pattern. In the schoolroom at Buckingham Palace, Governess Katherine Peebles taught him his three R's, gave him his first lessons in French, history, geography and the Bible. But the Duke of Edinburgh was determined that his son must "learn to mix with other kids." Partly because of its obscurity, the Hill House School was the one he and the Queen chose...
...governor? Is it still a state of the Union or has it abdicated entirely to the Federal Government?" States'-Righter Lawrence was reflecting the anguish and anger of other states'-righters as the Clinton, Tenn. integration case (TIME, Sept. 10 et seq.) moved from the local schoolroom to the federal courtroom with the arraignment last week of 16 segregationist leaders before a federal judge on con-tempt-of-court charges...