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...legislative investigating committee, a lanky, 46-year-old Negro, serving his third term for robbery, was describing a desperate interlude at Georgia's Rock Quarry Prison near Buford last week. Some of his details invited dispute. But beyond dispute was the fact that inmates of Rock Quarry had sunk so low on the scale of human hope that they had ducked out of the searing sun into the shadow of a rock pile, had smashed each other's legs in a despairing gesture of mass protest...
...Jicarilla Apaches of northern New Mexico seemed destined for extinction. A once proud and unruly people that were among the last to be "pacified" by the white man, they had sunk into a hopeless depression. They watched apathetically while opportunists from outside exploited their land, were so riddled by disease that their number had dropped to less than 600. Then the Bureau of Indian Affairs sent energetic Chester Faris to take over as superintendent. Faris had a way of handling his new charges. "I always made it a rule," says he, "never to tell an Indian what...
...John? As Beberman and Page see it, high-school math has sunk to its present state because students learn their theorems and formulas for an array of algebra problems ("If John is twice as old as Jane was four years ago . . ."), but never find out what makes the mathematician's brain work. In the hope of making arithmetic lively, some teachers insist on making each problem functional, as if there were nothing more to the subject than how to add up a grocery bill or compute compound interest. Such teachers completely misunderstand the adolescent, says Beberman. "The adolescent...
...service. In the prewar Navy, where the work was sometimes slack, shore leaves plentiful, he ran a taut command from sunrise to sundown, often ordered gunnery practice on weekends. His drive−like his temper−was merciless. In 1926, while directing the salvage of the submarine 8-51, sunk with 34 dead in the Atlantic off Block Island, Captain King was advised by an admiral that he would never be able to get the submarine into a relatively shallow drydock. "Sir," replied Ernie King, "we've raised her 130 feet in the open sea. We've brought...
...Committee on Oceanography warned that radioactive wastes foreseeable in the near future will be too potent to discharge into the ocean's surface water, from which they might be carried ashore or enter human bodies in seafood. If the wastes are dumped at sea, they must be carefully sunk in deep spots where bottom water has little circulation. A research program should be started at once, say the scientists, to find the best such places...