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...teacher of history and government in one of the large high schools in Norfolk, I wish to thank you for your very excellent article on "Virginia-The Gravest Crisis" [Sept. 22]. It gives a clear picture of our state political philosophy. If our secondary schools in Norfolk are closed by these laws, approximately 10,000 children will be denied an education. These children are going to be some of the leaders of the U.S., and our country's future depends on them. Closing the schools, destroying public education, and defying federal law is not helping provide sound leadership...
Bream himself turns out to be an exceedingly serious and intense young man. He has a near-flawless technique and a fine rhythmic sense. He elicits from his lute a wide variety of timbres and articulations, and phrases carefully--virtues he shares with Segovia, his teacher. Originally a pianist, he now divides his time between the lute and the guitar. It is only a shame that such a splendid artist cannot devote his full time to each...
...Diana Daye Humphries, 16, explained things to the Houston police one afternoon last week. Her stomach was upset, so she stayed home that day from Reagan Senior High School, where her 142 I.Q. and hard study made her a teacher's pet even though shyness kept her from being as popular with the boys
...application form for membership in the International Arthur Murray Lifetime Club. Keyed to worldwide expansion of studios, the application is designed to reduce the risk of suits. It asks students if they "enjoy exchange lessons," i.e., dancing with other than their regular instructors, thus proposes to discourage pupil-teacher crushes. Twice the form insists that membership must be within the pupil's means. Actually there have been a number of unpublicized incidents in which unhappy life-timers got their money back without going to court: one involved a wealthy West Coast widow, a triple lifetimer, who tried to date...
Died. Kenneth Powers Williams, 71, military historian, longtime (1909-58) teacher of mathematics at Indiana University; author of the multi-volume Lincoln Finds a General (TIME, Jan. 2, 1950; Nov. 10, 1952), probably the soundest clearest history of the Northern Command in the Civil War ever written; of cancer; in Bloomington...