Word: stating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enraged British newsmen. But their biggest gripe was that President Eisenhower refused to hold a press conference, although he had done so in West Germany. In rebuttal, Hagerty stubbornly and rightly maintained that Eisenhower was not at the beck and call of the press: "The President of the United States is here as a Chief of State, and he makes his own decisions." (Beyond that, British Prime Ministers never grant on-the-record press conferences...
...surprisingly little about the specific effects of different types of exercise on the human heart. As the experts puffed toward the finish line, they reached a consensus on some preliminary findings. ¶Athlete's heart" is an unfortunate term that should be discarded, because it indicates a diseased state that does not exist, said New York University's Dr. Louis F. Bishop. Also: changes in athletes' pulse rates are easy to measure but hard to evaluate, e.g., marathon runners' pulses are slower than sprinters'. In general, the pulse returns to normal more quickly after exercise...
...money is a nightmare, even more vexing is the oddly uneven quality of public education. Compared to Europe's state-run systems, U.S. schools seem an anarchist's brainchild. With their genius for decentralization, the Constitution's writers left education in the laps of the states, which handed it over to local communities. Today nearly all responsibility is vested in 198,108 members of 49,477 school boards. The schools they command reflect vastly different standards. The . teachers they hire receive grossly varying salaries. The results range from splendid to shameful...
Revolution. Criticizing the schools is no new habit. Ever since it took root in the mid-1800, the "common school" has been under whiplash criticism. When educators urged a broader curriculum than "the Bible and figgers," opponents cried that "every county in the state will need an insane hospital." When education began to reach sizable proportions in the 1880s. alarmists predicted the downfall of parental authority by "a crime-and-pauper-breeding system." In just one of his dozens of leaflets, Maryland's polemical Pamphleteer Francis B. Livesey blamed public schools for "the Negro problem, the servant problem...
Today the charge is academic "softness." James Conant does not agree-or quite disagree. Some critics, he thinks, miss their target as badly as Pamphleteer Livesey. What everybody ought to know more about, he suggests in a forthcoming book; The Child, the Parent and the State (Harvard University; $3.50), is the history of a highly significant development -the transformation of the U.S. high school from 1905 to 1930. Those who thunder that Cicero molded young minds at the turn of the century are right. But Cicero's assassin was not John Dewey alone. It was a combination of child...