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...alive; but she is doughty rather than diffident. She once taught Mexican women in a boxcar; and she has a zealot's faith in the wonders of progressive education. Ever since she began putting her theories into practice in the University Elementary School, the rolling, residential community of Westwood Hills, Los Angeles, Calif, has hardly known a day of peace...
Last month, the University Elementary School reopened with 175 pupils. There were still doubts as to whether Miss Seeds's youngsters had learned enough spelling, arithmetic, and reading just by "doing." The carefully neutral Westwood Hills Press decided to find out. The paper picked 81 graduates of Miss Seeds's school and 81 kids from the regular public schools of Westwood Hills, all of them about 13, and with equal I.Q.s (about 112). Then the same tests were given to both groups. Miss Seeds's students did as well as the others, if not better, in almost...
...Angeles, thousands lined Westwood Boulevard while batteries of searchlights and bursting skyrockets poked at a full moon. Into the fan-shaped outdoor theater of the University of California at Los Angeles came a parade of 60 floats, half a dozen of them on the theme of a U.C.L.A. bruin making hamburger out of a Stanford Indian...
...stumbling block which a recent Republican Legislature put in front of Democrats in the district of 40,000 people, Kelly explained, was to group Republican Wellesley with the towns of evenly divided Norwood, Westwood, and Dover in spite of the fact it was not adjacent to any of them...
Occasionally someone spoke a few reasonable words. Said Gladys Tilden, a Westwood apartment operator: "The idea of withdrawing housing is scandalous and idiotic. They [the Apartment Association] are trying to break the OPA but they're too stupid to see that would only make matters worse. Increased operating costs haven't hurt like inflation would...