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What the man on the screen teaches is another matter. Teaching is not technology. It is the splendid province of the remarkable man on this week's cover. In the last year he has done more than any other single educator to throw Sputnik's red glare where it belongs-on the curriculum in U.S. public schools. James Bryant Conant is a product (1910) of one of the nation's best secondary schools, Roxbury Latin in Boston. In his 303 he was one of the country's most brilliant young chemists. At 40 he became president...
...last week sat two Olmec ambassadors, lifesize, in clay. The largest Olmec ceramics yet found, they had been apparently smuggled out of Mexico and later bought by Los Angeles' Oscar Mayer, a freewheeling dealer in antiquities. Mayer insured the pieces for $75,000; historically they are priceless-two splendid clues in a search back through the dark abyss of time. The sculptures have already caused great excitement in Paris, where Andre Malraux among others identified them as definitely "Olmequisant." Next week they will move on to Berlin's Akademie der Künste, and in December to London...
...Barbary Coast (with earthquake), Florida bayous (with alligators), Mississippi stern-wheelers, New England whalers, and a Civil War battle (with neither side winning and no one offended). "Cape Canaveral" will even boast a man-carrying space ship. Said Manhattan's Board of Education President Charles Silver in splendid non sequitur, as the bulldozers prepared to break ground last week: "I have a feeling that history teachers all over the country will be grateful...
...people seem never to have heard of the semi-colon. one of the most valuable resources in the whole punctuational arsenal; and others, especially in epistolary usage, seem never to have heard of anything but the dash--unless it be the triple exclamation point! And even such a splendid and important novel as Joyce Cary's The Horse's Mouth is marred by horrible punctuation, particularly the author's evidently insatiable passion for the period...
...came fresh capital and nien with big ideas. Pink-cheeked Millionaire Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser jolted the Big Five by plunking down $18 million for an apartment-hotel resort called "Hawaiian Village," starting a $350 million "dream city" in Oahu's Kokohead area. Sheraton Hotels took over four splendid Waikiki Beach hotels, including the Royal Hawaiian and Moana, and made them pay. The venerable Bank of Hawaii brought in a new president from California, Rudy Peterson, and Peterson in turn brought with him such surefire mainland business-getters as charge accounts for credit loans and a factoring system...