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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they had to report was not so much a rise and a fall as a direction: for the first time since the economy's sag set in nearly a year ago, the U.S. Government was able to report last week that unemployment had dropped at more than the usual seasonal rate. In a joint release, the Commerce and Labor Departments announced a May unemployment total of 4,904,000, down 216.-000 from April. The unemployment percentage shrank from 7.5% of the labor force to 7.2%, and total employment rose to 64,061,000, showing a better-than-seasonal...
...delighted with the Brazilian leader's frankness-so much so that he short-circuited the usual channels in answering such a letter, sat down and wrote out his own reply. Probable result: a gathering of the hemisphere's Foreign Ministers to hash out mutual headaches-plus an enthusiastic O.K. for a Dulles trip to Rio late this summer. Even as Ike wrote, the U.S. was preparing to end its isolation from one of Latin America's biggest problems-coffee booms and busts (see below). And at week's end Roy Rubottom, Assistant Secretary of State...
...high school itself includes the four pre-college classes with an enrollment of about 1300. Its system of grouping classes represents a departure from usual junior and senior high divisions. Until last September, the school also handled the seventh and eighth grades, but enrollment reached over 1700 in a building which should not have held more than 1400. Scarsdale voted to erect a junior high school which was completed for use this year. The new multi-million dollar building includes sixth, as well as seventh and eighth graders, thus also easing the squeeze in the elementary. The four-year high...
...process which a Harvard student goes through only with his honors thesis. Unfortunately complication and not critical analysis of a subject is stressed, but the practise does provide a valuable preview of research methods. With his source theme behind him, the Scarsdale student is better able to attack the usual college paper than is the high-school graduate who has never written more than a 500-word essay...
...other panaceas have proved to be illusions--from Marxian economics to social engineering, our high school system should not midwife despair of ever reaching such a goal.Fred Safier '60 received nation-wide publicity when he entered Harvard at the age of twelve. His method of escaping the usual secondary school curriculum is not open to most of the nation's gifted...