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...After listening to testimony for six months and plowing through thousands of pages of reports, a "select committee" of the House found that the nation's educational and philanthropic foundations have made a good record in resisting Communist infiltration. "A few small foundations," said the committee, "became captives of the Communist Party. Here and there a foundation board included a Communist or a Communist sympathizer . . . There remains the ugly, unalterable fact that Alger Hiss became the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace . . . that Frederick Vanderbilt Field became the secretary of the American Council of the Institute...
Within certain limits, a veteran may choose any program of education or training needed to reach the educational, professional or vocational goal to which he aspires. Also within certain limits, he may select his own school or training establishment, as long as it will "accept and retain" him in whatever field it finds him qualified...
...accept the unproved proposition that some 60% of American high-school students are incapable of absorbing such training. In report after report, they suggest that the majority of Americans are doomed to intellectual mediocrity, "destined from birth to be hewers of wood and drawers of water to a select few." As a result of this notion, high-school curricula are filled with "Life Adjustment Education Programs," in which " 'the problem of acquiring the social skills of dancing, playing party games, doing parlor stunts, etc.' is given just as much emphasis as 'the problem of acquiring the ability...
Finally this summer Willy Weihrauch produced a working specimen of his beloved Der Roterer (Little Spinner), weighing 87 Ibs. and powered by a two-cylinder, 14-h.p. engine. Behind cousin Johannes' cinema in Neuss and before a select gathering of neighbors, he set the blades to rotating, poised lightly on his toes and took off. At 10 ft. he crashed into a wall. Both man and machine needed repairs after that. This month the Little Spinner was ready for the air once more, and Willy persuaded a Swiss friend to take it on its second flight...
With a gala dinner dance attended by 300 members of Uruguay's most select society, the glittering new Victoria Plaza hotel opened for business in Montevideo this week. Designed for American tourists and businessmen, North or South, the 22-story, 400-room hotel is the fifth link in a $50 million Latin American hotel chain being put together by the Intercontinental Hotels Corp., a subsidiary of Pan American World Airways...