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...head the centralized agency, the foundation picked able, imaginative Daniel Schreiber, 51, who showed that demoralized, bored Manhattan slum pupils eagerly looked toward higher educational horizons when and if they got the chance (TIME, Oct. 12, 1959). Said Schreiber, who now leaves his job as head of New York's "Higher Horizons" program: "These are the future goon squads for any subversive willing to pay them...
...that seemed startlingly out of place in the left-wing weekly. Last week the agreement to disagree came to an end when Mauriac quit, flew to the side of his President. "Mauriac loves De Gaulle as the English love their Queen," said L'Express Editor Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber. "For us, De Gaulle is only a politician and love is not a problem. François Mauriac has abandoned his fight and his readers." Meanwhile, De Gaulle took time out to salute "this very, very great writer, who explains and lifts up mankind and casts glory on France...
...Schreiber, in explaining the philosophy behind the Project, often enjoys telling one particular anecdote. "It's a story Sam Levenson sometimes tells. It seems that one day his brother goes up to his father and says 'Dad, I want to go to college.' So the old man stops for a minute and he looks at him and he says 'So who's stopping you.' That's the attitude we'd like the parents of our kids to take. We'd like them to say 'Don't worry about it, son, we'll get yourself through somehow...
Most students who join the Project enter it in the seventh grade. "This is the age," Schreiber feels, "when a kid begins to get a general idea of his vocational plans." Only the top fifty per cent of the students in each school, selected on the basis of I.Q. and reading scores, are admitted to the program. These, organized into separate "Project" classes, then become Schreiber's particular concern...
...Another big problem," Schreiber explained, "is to give these youngsters cultural experiences of the sort most middle class kids get from their families. We take them to museums, concerts, plays and sometimes we even get the conductor or lead actor to talk to them. We try to make each visit an excursion. If we take them to Carnegie Hall, we make sure they walk down 57th Street afterwards and go to the Automat, say, for something to eat. We want them to get the idea that they can walk on 57th Street and go into a restaurant just like anyone...