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...educator who hopes to strike a compromise between the critics and defenders of U.S. public schools is Professor Paul Woodring of the Western Washington College of Education. "It must be obvious to everyone," writes Teacher Woodring in the current issue of Harper's, "that a strong ground swell is running against us." Too many teachers "have persisted in believing that all these attacks are motivated by malice, by a desire to reduce taxes, or by ignorance of what is actually going on in the schools . . . [But] the great public enthusiasm for these criticisms rests upon a ... feeling of vague...
...even better when he stood in the corner of the living room in Charlie Case's house in Abilene and shook hands down the long, long line. To an Abilene man who had been in the homecoming parade Ike said: "Say, you did a swell job!" To a young man introduced as a veteran, Ike gave the big grip and shouted above the din: "You look like a damn soldier." To an lowan delegate who wanted to know if he was a me-too candidate, Ike was blunt: "If they say I'm me-tooing just because...
Born the year (1859) in which Darwin's Origin of Species came out, Dewey marked the crest of a tide that had begun to swell with the French Revolution. No man so completely summed up the raw, rationalistic credo of his century-belief in the here & now, in the necessity for perpetual adjustment to change, in the idea that man has no provable end, only "ends that are literally endless...
Time & again the Legion has been bled white, but the world's hopeless and desperate have always poured in to swell its numbers. The recruit applying at Sidi-bel-Abbès needs no identification papers, and may, if he chooses, keep his past to himself. If he is over 5 ft. 1 in., well set up and seemingly aged between 18 and 42, he will be accepted. Czarist refugees from Russia, Spanish Communists fleeing Franco, ex-members of Rommel's Afrika Corps, embezzlers and down-and-outs from all parts of the globe have sought sanctuary...
...nine scheduled foreign carriers,* are about 30% cheaper than first class, and are available on 39 flights a week. By August there will be 71 weekly tourist flights each way, with seats for 8,000 passengers. Already booked heavily through July, the tourist flights are expected to swell to a record 400,000 the number of American tourists traveling in Europe this year. Sample tourist fare this summer: round trip from New York to London, $486, v. $711 first class; (roundtrip tourist class by boat to Southampton...