Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Again, in January 1956, Ike summoned his closest advisers to a White House stag dinner. "I have called you together," said he, "to discuss a decision that I must soon make myself." Subject for decision: whether to run for reelection. In the general stampede to urge Ike to run, two guests, privately primed by Milton to present the negative side, forgot their duty. Then Milton stood up. "I was supposed to summarize this discussion," said he. "But since the opinion is unanimous, there is nothing to summarize. Therefore I am going to state both sides of the argument...
...days De Gaulle was subjected to the curious experience of hearing irate Africans loudly demand something he had already offered them. At Conakry, in French Guinea, firebrand Premier Sékou Touré, orating to a crowd before an obviously annoyed De Gaulle, shouted that "We prefer poverty in independence to richness in slavery." (But Touré also promised that Guinea would vote yes to the constitution.) And at Dakar, restive capital of Senegal, De Gaulle's motorcade into town was beset by jeering demonstrators calling for "immediate independence." For the first time during his African tour, the stony...
This forthright statement on a subject that had been rumored for months shocked officials, set diplomats and newsmen scurrying to find out precisely what Noon meant. Opposition leaders and newspapers detected a plot. Behind Noon, they cried, "was the same hidden hand which forced us into the Baghdad Pact...
...often, charges Donald R. Tuttle. professor of English at Cleveland's Fenn College, the rule for teachers of English becomes simply, "Anybody who speaks English can teach it." Result, according to Tuttle: only a third of the English teachers in U.S. secondary schools have studied their subject extensively, and another third is "seriously underprepared...
Part of the trouble, he says, is that only five states-Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and New York-require 30 semester hours of training in their subject for English teachers, the standard thought necessary by the council. In Massachusetts (nine semester hours) and in New Hampshire and Wyoming (the least choosy, with six), it is perfectly possible for a teacher to confront English classes without having studied a line of Shakespeare in college. A year of freshman composition and a one-semester look at the Lake poets would satisfy Massachusetts...