Word: superiority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About 1% of U.S. schoolchildren have either superior intelligence or a specific talent beyond their years. Educators have long grappled with the problems of average and retarded students, but gifted children have been largely forced to pass through school at the pace of their less talented classmates...
Pressing Need. Connecticut's problems are particularly pressing because a disproportionate 15% of its school children fall into the superior category. This week the state was hard at work on one of the most ambitious programs yet: a statewide survey of the needs of gifted children, in which laymen and professional educators will collaborate. Two groups will work on the survey. One. the Connecticut Committee for the Gifted, a state-appointed group, is headed by Author John (A Bell for Adano) Hersey, who has made the study of educational needs his avocation (he has four school-age children...
Last week in Norfolk, after 38 years, four months and two days of active duty, Lieut. General Oliver Prince Smith retired at 62. In a quiet ceremony, his superior officer, Admiral Jerauld Wright, commander in chief of the Atlantic Fleet, and his wife, Mrs. Esther Smith, pinned the four stars of a full general on his spare shoulders, and his three-star flag as commander, Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic, was struck. "By your inspiring leadership and steadfast courage," wrote Marine Commandant General Lemuel Shepherd Jr. in a warm farewell message, "the marines under your command achieved a record which stands...
From the speeches of certain Christians (many of them Catholics), on the other hand, one gathers the impression that "Americanism" is a kind of fifth mark of the Church, that God has endowed this nation with superior wisdom and virtue, and that the advance of His kingdom is made to the tune of the "Star-Spangled Banner." In this view, to be anti-American is to be somehow antireligious, and "Americanism" is spoken of in the reverent tones that should be reserved for the expounding of revealed truths...
...supposed to be burned on a giant scrap heap in the desert. Carmi did not suspect that there might be anything special about it, but he could not bear the thought of any piano's being burned, no matter how old and battered. He got permission from his superior officer to keep it out of the flames. Later, partially restored but still encased in plaster, the piano was given to a troupe of entertainers touring the British armies in the Mediterranean...