Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...better life for Latin Americans, said Argentina's President Arturo Frondizi in Washington last week, is fundamentally up to the Latin Americans. To get it in Argentina, he is demanding hard work, sound money and conditions that attract productive capital. The U.S. officially agrees (it provided a major portion of a massive $329 million aid package last month), and this fact gives Frondizi's opposition -Peronistas and Communists -the chance to cry that he has "sold out" to Washington...
Poverty v. Freedom. Next day, as Frondizi and his wife were being welcomed to Washington by the Eisenhowers (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the strike began to ease. Shops removed their shutters; factories reopened. The victory was Frondizi's. He quickly wrote off the win as a consolidation of his austere leadership, and rose before a joint session of the U.S. Congress to have his say about a proper attitude for the U.S. toward Latin America. "Peoples that are poor and without hope," he told a well-filled House chamber, "are not free peoples. A stagnant and impoverished country cannot uphold...
...slums, high school is a waste of time-and public money. More often than not they drop out before graduation to take dead-end jobs, in a few years send to school another generation of hopeless pupils. But to some 450 youngsters at Manhattan's George Washington High School and Junior High School 43, an experimental teaching and guidance program offers a fair chance to complete high school, and for the brightest, a hope of going on to college. This week, after more than two years' trial, the New York City board of education pronounced the experiment...
...children's hard-luck homes with a long-range program of understanding help at school. Project classes are small (range: ten to 28); teachers are carefully briefed on each child's background; the children are taken on after-hours class trips, get repeated personal counseling. At George Washington, stocky, balding Counselor David Schulman, who grew up in Brooklyn, sees individual students as often as three times a week. Sometimes they merely want to hear a friendly word; sometimes they need real help. Counselor Schulman will ask for a social worker to cope with an alcoholic father, arrange...
...ultimate goal is to find college candidates among once-hopeless students. It is a long, uphill fight. Of 148 students in the experiment's first class at Junior High School 43, only 38 were able to pass all their courses after they went on to George Washington in 1957. Without the experiment's hand-tailored education, perhaps five could have expected to pass...