Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over village after village in Nyasaland last week, planes of the Royal Rhodesian Air Force dropped leaflets with a special message for the women "What will happen," they asked, "when your husband is in prison? Where will you get your cloth when all the money is used to pay fines? Tell your men to stop being stupid." By "being stupid" the government meant joining the nationalist agitation for Nyasaland to secede from the British-inspired Central African Federation...
...Communism is paradise! The people's communes are the ladder to heaven!" proclaimed the tattered signs nailed to the masts, but the words carried a special irony for the fishermen who manned the fragile junks. Last month 1,000 of these junks had sailed into Macao harbor from Red China, their crews and passengers ostensibly bent on celebrating Chinese New Year in the 6-sq.-mi. Portuguese province. As usual, the men swarmed ashore to jam the smoky teahouses and to try their luck at fantan. But when the long holiday was over, less than half the junks sailed...
Fraiman's miserly motivation was simple enough. He wanted to help Jewish boys get the learning in school that he had wrested by himself from his Bible and unabridged dictionary. Some 20 years ago, he made a special trip to New York City's Yeshiva University to walk the halls of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and to talk hesitantly with the scholars...
...well-off Cleveland suburb of Lakewood, Ohio saw no good reason last year to offer French and special science courses below the high-school level, as suggested by a band of determined parents. So the parents signed up a French teacher and two working scientists as instructors, charged pupils 50? a lesson, soon had a booming after-school program of their own (TIME, June...
...Pittsburgh." He intends to pull all the stops. His first object, he says, is "putting on the field the best ball club." Then come the gimmicks: fireworks shows at $1,000 a clip, a baby-sitting service for mothers, free nylons for the ladies, bands in the stands, special "nights" for fans. Veeck himself will wander through the stands, sitting with the fans to talk baseball and listen to their gripes. At odd moments he will do duty at the turnstiles, taking tickets-and, of course, counting the house...