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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...solution will be to extend the aid to the parents directly, so that they may place their children in such schools as they deem proper. Free choice in education is the essence of the G.I. plan; the Government gives the assistance, but does not require the recipient to attend a Government school. Why should state educational assistance differ? ANTHONY W. DALY Alton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 28, 1959 | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...allies fully agreed on a formal invitation to Khrushchev to attend an East-West summit in Paris late in April. Ike took the proposal even further by suggesting a series of summits that might last through his presidential term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Success for an Idea | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...Butter, No Milk. In such predominantly Catholic regions as Normandy, Brittany and La Vendée, children who attend public schools and their parents are occasionally denied the sacraments. In one Vendée town the curé himself told his congregation: "You have a good laïque teacher, but even if she were a saint, you should not send your children to her." The teacher soon found that children would turn from her in the street, and that farmers refused to sell her butter and milk. In cities the tables are often turned: a child returning from confession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The School War | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...students attend class six hours each day, including Saturday and Sunday, from 1 to 5 p.m. and from 7 to 9 P.M. For the most part, one man, either LeFevre or a guest lecturer, talks uninterruptedly; some time there are discussions among the class. The most common form of homework, besides the reading from three short textbooks, is a daily 200-word paper, on such assignments as "Assume you are a private contractor. Tell how you could build better highways than any government could...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Colorado's Freedom School Preaches Absolute Rights of Individual Man | 12/17/1959 | See Source »

Under Nehru, India has had generally sound government, a stable currency and a working democracy through its years of independence. The press is free, the restraints of free speech and assembly are minimal. Forty million Indians attend school and college, and the number is to be doubled in five years. If any one man can claim the credit, it is Nehru, and all Indians know it. Scarcely anyone now remembers the 1947 warning of Sir Winston Churchill that "we are turning over India to men of straw, like the caste Hindu, Mr, Nehru, of whom, in a few years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Shade of the Big Banyan | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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