Word: identities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from Texas?" Faith v. Facts. Yet the defenders of local option often ignore the fact that U.S. schools are now controlled or influenced by many forces far beyond the local level. "However strongly we may believe that public education in America is still entirely a local matter," says Pres ident John H. Fischer of Columbia Uni versity's Teachers College, "the facts will not support our faith. Nor is there any likelihood that a nation whose regional differences diminish every year can meet its educational problems by ignoring com mon national needs." Statewide needs already take precedence over local...
...nearly half of the machine guns and carbines, three-quarters of the diesel engines used by the U.S. armed forces during the war. Dwight Eisenhower first encountered Wilson while serving as the Army's Chief of Staff in the postwar years; in 1952, after Ike was elected Pres ident, Wilson was his choice for the job of Secretary of Defense...
...Manhattan's Boyden Associates claims the highest ($50,000) average salary for the executives it places. Among its recent recruits: United Fruit President Thomas Sunderland and Studebaker-Packard Pres ident Sherwood Egbert...
That the University needs more pport from local government is ident from the recent "stills" ntroversy, when few local officials ood by the University in its oppotion to the office building. Educat potential community leaders great feedback value: For exple, Brown-Providence relations happy precisely because so any of the town's influential citi are Brown alumni. Moreover, arvard University has a responsity to the city, especially since it to ignore the benefits it reap from a progressive urban ewal policy. If Harvard wants city to back its bid to buy the A lots when all University land...
...Inevitably, a reporter asked Kennedy if he wanted his boy to grow up to be President. Replied the new papa, commonsensibly: "I haven't thought about it. I just want for him to be all right." After visiting the baby with his father, Millionaire Joe Kennedy, the Pres ident-elect revealed that "we finally decided who the baby looks like. He looks like Dad." Who decided that? Replied Jack...