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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should segregate the Russians because they are making trouble, and the Japanese because they fought us, and the Spanish who did, and the Germans who did, and the French who obviously cannot spell. And the English because they are English, which is enough reason. In fact, I think we should segregate all nationalities except the Irish...
Right or Wrong. The major difference between the old McGuffey and the new is the technique of teaching moral principles. McGuffey did not hesitate to spell out the point of his stories: e.g., the idle boy is almost invariably poor and miserable; the industrious boy is happy and prosperous. Dr. Ullin W. Leavell, "senior author" of the Modern McGuffey Readers, realized that today's schoolboy is too sophisticated to sit still for such out-of-date preaching. The Golden Rule Series only suggests the principle in its stories, lets the teacher bring out the point in discussions. The stories...
...side, Mann and his 175-man police force had made carefully detailed plans to keep order. Orval Faubus never gave the mayor's plans a chance-and Woodrow Wilson Mann, who had twice supported Faubus for governor, is eloquent in his anger. Says he of Faubus: "His words spell sedition, his defiance rebellion. His words and actions echo another tragic period in our history when irresponsible men plunged this nation into a Civil...
...Sloganeers. The Russians were also going on the offensive in the diplomatic battle over disarmament. In London last week Soviet Delegate Valerian Zorin bluntly brushed aside the laborious spell-out of the Western proposals to the U.N. Disarmament Subcommittee. This left Russia free to exploit the disarmament issue in the twelfth U.N. General Assembly session beginning next week. There Russia can again hard-sell the simple slogan, "Let's all stop nuclear tests...
Changing Masters. In the struggle for position after Stalin's death, Mikoyan showed supreme agility. He joined in the gang-up on Beria. As the original consumer-goods man he ought to have found Malenkov's breathing-spell policy congenial. But his shrewd nose for tactics told him not to commit himself to Malenkov. Although First Party Secretary Khrushchev might have seemed to Mikoyan a clodhopping countryman, Khrushchev had one prime quality that Mikoyan valued-political skill. Khrushchev could handle himself well in party scraps, and alone among Soviet leaders he could talk to the people. Outwardly...