Word: items
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the case of Teacher Russell was a highly embarrassing item on the Los Angeles board of education's agenda. Was it a case of censorship? Superintendent of Schools Ellis A. Jarvis pooh-poohed the suggestion, conveniently ruled that it was just a matter of obeying the law against selling books in a classroom. Should Teacher Russell then be disciplined? Some 35 teachers at U.C.L.A. and Santa Monica City College rose to her defense in an angry petition charging "a breach of academic freedom." Said Florence Russell: "If reminding students of their rightful literary heritage is an offense...
...Boston last week, famed Grocers S. S. Pierce & Co. were doing a brisk business in an item whose output is sharply limited: "Honegar," a fifty-fifty mixture of honey and apple-cider vinegar, compounded by Mrs. Catherine Perry, using frontier-housewife techniques, at Hartland Four Corners, Vt. And all over the U.S., booksellers were doing equally brisk business with an item in seemingly unlimited demand as well as supply: Folk Medicine, by D. C. Jarvis...
...Pyrenees flank in better shape, De Gaulle could continue to the next item on his agenda for France, expressed in the next sentence of his memoirs: "To make of it one of the three world powers, to become one day, if need be, the arbiter between the Soviet and Anglo-Saxon camps...
...office above the pro's shop at the Augusta National Golf Club, President Eisenhower began hammering out the domestic budget for fiscal 1961 with his top Cabinet officers. "Gentlemen," he had told them at a session fortnight before in Washington, "you are going to have to prove each item to me." Despite pressures of rising prices and cries for ever more costly military hardware, the President was determined to make a balanced budget his top domestic priority...
Further, he wanted: 1) continuing Soviet proofs of good international intentions; 2) previous agreement among the Western powers "on the questions to be dealt with and the common position they will take on each item"; 3) "personal contact between Mr. Khrushchev and myself." Happily, added the general, Khrushchev has agreed to visit Paris in March. So after that, say in May, a summit meeting would be in order...