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...Ashby Report has stirred new hope and ambition. As one Lagos schoolboy put it last week: "I am not the smartest in my class, but I am not the dumbest. Until I heard of the new plan, I had no hope of going on. Now I think I can. Oh, sir! I will study very hard, and maybe I will be as good or better than the smartest ones...
...Italy as allies." he said. "Yours tried to come to our country as enemies.* That we can never forget." Cooling down, Khrushchev talked of how in 42 years Russia has become "the first country in the world of culture. We have no poor, no unemployed. In capitalism, the smartest man is the one with the most dollars. Here he is the one with the most talents. Think it over, Mr. President, and join the Communist Party...
Ever since the wily Ulysses ruled both islands, it has been said that the smartest of all Greeks come from neighboring Ithaca and Cephalonia. Last week one of the smartest and pertest daughters of Ulysses' ancient offshore island of Cephalonia was busily masterminding a top-to-bottom reorganization of the Greek public school system so basic as to change norms laid down by Plato and Aristotle themselves. "In ancient Greece," said Dr. Kalliniki Dendrinou Antonakaki last week, as Parliament debated implementation of her newly adopted Educational Reform Act, "education taught only the pursuit of the esthetic ideals of truth...
...bolt of cotton, a kerosene lamp, a bicycle-it is almost invariably an Indian dukah wallah in a filthy, tin-roofed shop that sells to him. In Kenya, Asians pay one-third of the colony's indirect taxes and run some of Nairobi's smartest shops; in Zanzibar they control the clove market; in Tanganyika they dominate the economy. In Uganda, where before the war Indians were responsible for as much as 90% of the trade, there is a saying: "Europeans have the power, Africans have the land, and the Asians have the money...
...Johnson is strictly a control pitcher," Shepard said; "he can pitch to the corners; we used him largely in relief last year; and he is the smartest of the group.... Cook? Well, Cook has more stuff than Johnson--a good curve-ball and a pretty good fast one, too.... The others? Well, they haven't shown us a lot yet.... My gosh if anything happens to those first two follows (cook and Johnson), the games will last till after dark...