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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Antarctica it has been said that no wood rots, no metal rusts, no food decays, few bugs survive. But U.S. interservice rivalry flourishes there. Most recent example: the argument over the marking of the 6,000-ft. ice landing-strip runway at McMurdo Sound. Navy ground crews insisted upon marking ends of the runway Navy-style, with oil barrels painted black, or even-as a concession to Air Force protests-by painting some of the barrels orange. The Air Force cargo pilots, who fly in from New Zealand, held out for the way the Air Force marks its ice strips...
...dangerously progressive forces encouraging nationalism. So did feudal old El Glaoui of Marrakech, who barnstormed the country flourishing a news picture of Aisha in a bathing suit, lolling on a beach with her brother, Prince Moulay Hassan. This was the kind of outrage that Sultan ben Youssef was bringing upon them, he cried. El Glaoui did not rest until he got the French to send the Sultan, Aisha, and the rest of the royal family (two wives, two other daughters, two sons, a gaggle of concubines and attendants) into exile...
...first days of independence, extremist Moslem traditionalists in Lahore and surrounding areas grabbed unveiled women, shaved their heads and spat upon them. Shocked by these indignities, a group of progressive army officers began using their own unveiled wives and daughters as decoys to catch the fanatics. Begum Khatidja G.A. Khan is Deputy Minister for Social Services in West Pakistan. Says she: "The mullahs cannot make time stand still. We must be affected by the changing world." Said a Karachi newspaperman last week. "The Pakistani male has had it-from all four wives." When in 1954 then Prime Minister Mohammed...
...other is the experiment in modernity which, "in begetting a secular science and secular arts, has also incidentally promoted a secular interpretation of state and law." As a result of this secularization, the state has been assigned tasks it cannot properly perform, for the state "depends for its vitality upon a motivation which it cannot by itself command...
...present high school curriculum in mathematics," said Howard F. Fehr of Columbia Teachers College, "is outmoded, oriented to 19th century mathematics and physics," and completely fails to relate what it teaches with the total structure of modern mathematics. "Any 17th century mathematician, reappearing upon earth today, could enter most classrooms in our high schools and, without any preparation, teach the present traditional curriculum, so far is it behind the times...