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...Christian Science Monitor's William H. Stringer, prompted Publisher John S. Knight's Miami Herald to part company, at least for the moment, with Kennedy. Although Murrow speaks with "passionate clarity," said the Herald, his self-confessed failure,as an executive at CBS renders him unfit for the post: "For once, the President is impractical...
...Yale player who flunked out but got his year of eligibility back when a doctor declared him psychologically unfit for college--an exemption becouse of "illness...
Commenting on the difficulties of African students in gaining an education, Nkosi mentioned an acquaintance who was denied permission to leave the country to study. Claimed the government: he would be "unfit to take his proper place in South African society after an American education...
...didn't last. And Nigeria has at last warmed up to U.S.-style education. For years British-trained Nigerians chained students to a syllabus that taught all about 18th century England; they scorned as unfit for Nigeria the U.S. blend of liberal and practical schooling. That attitude is now dying. Converts include such once ferocious critics as the Western Region's former Education Minister Stephen Awokoya, who visited the U.S., changed his mind one night in a Boston hotel. Said he: "If this system of education can develop the highly admirable culture that exists in the U.S. today...
Prisoner of Freedom. Caught with his flak outfit in the Stalingrad encirclement, Strauss escaped but suffered frostbite so severe in both feet that he was declared unfit for combat. Ending the war as a lieutenant and an instructor at a flak school in southern Bavaria, Strauss was taken prisoner by the U.S. Third Army. It was the break of his life. The Americans made Strauss an interpreter. Then, finding that he was untainted by Nazi ties, they gave him a local-government job. Under American supervision, a new Catholic party was being formed in Bavaria. Joining forces with those...