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...urged all schools to begin ten years of language in the third grade, the most sound-sensing age level (all Russian children begin in the fifth grade). This year Washington, D.C. is starting third-grade French and Spanish. Hawaii's elementary schools will teach Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Hindi, Tagalog. More than 400 U.S. high schools will teach Russian; New York City and its suburbs alone has more high school Russian courses than the entire nation had two years ago. All San Francisco high schools are switching language study from the formal grammar approach to the U.S. Army...
...Personnel Records Unit that catalogues each cop's skills, hobbies and qualifications on an IBM card, can in minutes mechanically thumb 24,000 cards and flick out names of policemen who understand Tagalog or Tonkinese or deaf-mute sign language, who are tall enough (6 ft. 3 in.) to form an honor guard for England's visiting Queen Elizabeth II, who know bees well enough (twelve do) to handle the swarm that appeared suddenly last month in Brooklyn...
Harvard's glee club today has the largest repertory of any college glee club in the land: 169 works in English, Latin, French, Italian, Tagalog and German. It has recorded Bach's St. Matthew Passion, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, and works by such varied composers as Gabrieli, Piston. Byrd, Randall Thompson, Hindemith, Palestrina, Berlioz. Its concerts with the Boston Symphony have become city fixtures. This year, as every year, the club will perform in clubs, museums and theaters from Cambridge to Texas (48 concerts), will leave after final exams for a European tour. It performs...
...hands and bitter mouth walked across the huge chandeliered reception room at Malacanan, the palace of Filipino Presidents, and into the office marked "Presidential Complaints and Action Commission." A tired but courteous official asked her to sit down and tell him her trouble. Her problem, she said in soft Tagalog, was that her husband was about to go off to the U.S. and abandon her; she wanted President Magsaysay to keep him at home...
...against Communism-during four hectic days in the Philippines. ''He is not afraid to shake my hand even if my shirt is dirty," cried a shopkeeper whom Nixon met on a whirlwind trip into the countryside. In Manila, where he donned a green-embroidered, white barong tagalog before addressing a huge youth rally, he shook hands with more than 5,000 students...