Word: supplementals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This lurid episode may be a cliché of a thousand Sunday supplement stories about the "white slave" trade, but it actually happened innumerable times in the vociferously moralistic setting of Victorian England. The nature, extent and eventual destruction of the white slave trade in England are described in detail in this modest monograph by a British novelist, Charles (The Neon Rainbow) Terrot. Between mild beige covers, in mild beige prose, he has told a story that makes the ghastliest passages of Dickens read like a parish calendar...
Constitutionally, the group, which is a descendant of the Students for Rockefeller Club, is limited to activity in the New Hampshire primary, but it has the option to reorganize on a more formal basis later. The immediate problem, Scotch said, is to recruit members and raise money to supplement the $14 treasury bequeathed by the Students for Rockefeller, who voted at their final meeting not to donate the money to the Harvard Young Republican Club...
...York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller (we might as well be precise, since he is just another governor now) is currently backing a proposal which would permit non-property taxes at the local level as a supplement to current property taxes and to state grants for education. His argument, stated in simple terms, is that property owners will not take many more rises in the mil rate, and that no one likes a rise in State taxes. Hence, sales taxes or a surcharge on state income taxes is needed to meet the rising costs of schools...
This is no discredit to the pioneering Christian mission schools, which have trained virtually every native leader and are today responsible for perhaps 85% of elementary education in non-Moslem black Africa. But such schools are still too few, and the colonial powers have done little to supplement them. The Belgians, for example, only recently started a secondary school system. Britain's Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland has only three secondary schools funneling Africans into the multiracial University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Though 180.000 African children attend the federation's primary schools, the secondary schools have admitted...