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...Hyannis Port, the President's mother had just returned from the country club golf course when Niece Ann Gargan rushed to her with the news. Back at the Kennedy house, Rose decided not to waken her napping husband, instead summoned Boston Physician Russell Boles Jr. to see if Old Joe, who is 75, could endure the shock of the news. Dr. Boles said he could, and Teddy, who had flown up earlier, told his father the next morning. Said Boles afterward, "He took it with characteristic courage." The night of the assassination, Caroline and John Jr. were told that their...
...offer General Education courses that differ in prerequisites as well as content. This is all the more reason for preserving a common element in science instruction. The strongly science-minded student will move directly into course work with a Department; the humanist may not look for a course to waken his scientific interest. Consequently science in the program is most important to freshmen who arrive uncommitted, and particularly for those who come from schools where science was neglected. Their General Education course may leave them unmoved; it can also be an important confrontation...
...kind hearts are not enough to waken young minds. That job takes deep knowledge of a subject and the ability to translate it. On both accounts, says Mayer, U.S. teachers score low. In part, this is the legacy of progressivism's pseudo science of "educational research," which insists that children not learn ahead of schedule. Emphasis on curiosity, says Mayer, "has simply disappeared from educational literature...
...state and federal governments tried to put out the fire by drilling 500 bore holes and pumping floods of silt-bearing water down them. But the deep-down fire still burned. The fumes got so bad that mine officials kept watch round the clock to waken residents in case of a sudden increase of escaping gas. They knew that the Lackawanna River, toward which the fire was eating its way, would be no barrier. The fire could pass under its bed, and eat its way under the city's business section on the far side...
...heavy on the cyclamen, Antonina lowered a note from her win dow on a long, silken cord. On it was written the single word "Giuseppe." Giuseppe received it on bended knee, unable to move for sheer adoration. The following Sunday, when Antonina's mother went to waken her daughter, she found her gone. "Those two young doves," said a villager as he told of it later, "had flown." That afternoon when the doves had returned, irate father Polizzi haled Giuseppe Pellerito and his father Salvatore before a court of local elders in the butcher shop for the kind...