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...Waterloo is a sleepy Oklahoma town, a whistle stop on the Santa Fe. Its people are mostly dirt farmers who raise wheat on the red, rolling land, or "sundown farmers" who work in the oilfields nearby. Waterloo's white frame schoolhouse can be seen from the homes of almost every one of the eight families who send their kids to school there...
Last week Waterloo was astir with the biggest local news in 25 years. By state order, the school had been shut down...
Oklahoma had passed a law abolishing the 1,500 one-room schoolhouses in the state. The law was designed to cut Oklahoma's school bill and boost its educational standards, but Waterloo didn't see it that way. Next fall they would have to send their children to Edmond, two hours away by bus. Teacher Mary McKinney, who had lived thereabouts all her 47 years, was getting ready to move somewhere else. She was sure of one thing: "I don't want to teach in a city. City pupils are impudent...
...Actually, Eton is nearly 507 years old; it was founded in 1440 by Henry VI, but Old Etonians were too busy in wartime 1940 to celebrate. *Who probably never said in so many words that "the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton." There were no organized cricket or football playing fields in Wellington's day. He did say: "I really believe I owe my state of enterprise to the tricks I used to play in the garden [of Eton...
...ripple ran through the throngs lining the route from Waterloo Station. But it was only Queen Mary, sedate and ramrod-backed, in her maroon Daimler. The real cheers came half an hour later, when six prancing white police horses stepped along the broad, sanded Mall leading a shining, black state landau with scarlet-coated outriders. In the carriage, her pink ostrich feathers bobbing gaily, sat the Queen, King George beside her, in naval blues; and opposite their parents, riding backwards, the Princesses. As they drove past the cheering crowds, Margaret couldn't resist craning round once...