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...synthesis of economics, geography, social anthropology and politics, third-graders study Cleveland as a shipping and commercial center, a melting pot of immigrants and native pioneers, and a city plagued by the problem of slum neighborhoods and urban renewal. Throughout, the aim is to encourage valid judgments and discourage rote recitations. "The youngster should be aware that he's in a society that has values, and that a careful choice of values is what determines a rational man," says English...
Most of the missing had explanations, including family illness, "previous commitments" and "pressing business." Some of the excuses were valid. But the fact remained that virtually none of the South's senior Democratic politicians were on hand. And for the first time within recent memory, the South played no role of any importance at a Democratic Convention...
...next day more mobs formed, and Negroes continued to slip inside stores, rush out with merchandise. Mayor James Tate invoked an 1850 law to ban everyone not on a valid, pressing errand from the streets in a 125-block area. Some 300 state troopers also stood by. Some semblance of order was restored, but officials were prepared for more violence at any moment...
Robinson Crusoe on Mars. Break out the ray guns, boys! Here comes a horde of little green men? On the contrary, here comes a pleasant surprise: a piece of science fiction based on valid speculation, a modest yet provocative attempt to imagine what might happen if, in the next decade or so, a U.S. astronaut were spaceshipwrecked on the red planet and found himself, as Robinson Crusoe found himself 300 years ago, alone and desperate in a wild new world...
...underwent their "Golgotha" in Nazi Europe during the years 1939 to 1945. They became victims of Nazi persecution for their silent or outspoken resistance against the Third Reich. The martyrdom of these priests, who sacrificed their lives for their faith in the service of the church, is the only valid answer to the accusations of indifference of the Catholic Church toward the Nazi regime...