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Only in the U.S., reported Flesch, is there any remedial-reading problem. In Britain, kindergarten children read Three Little Pigs; in Germany, second-grade pupils can read aloud (without necessarily understanding all the words) almost anything in print. By contrast, average U.S. third-graders have a reading mastery of only 1,800 words. Why is the U.S. so far behind? Says Flesch: "We have decided to forget that we write with letters, and [instead] learn to read English as if it were Chinese...
...complaints about the conduct of men in the Library have just come to us. The first of these is that men make too much noise, talking aloud across the tables, and in other ways acting in a disturbing manner. Such men know well enough that the Library is not the place for loud talking; and nothing more than a word ought to be necessary to make them more careful in their behavior. Their actions have arisen from thoughtlessness more then anything else. No such pardonable carelessness, however, can be attributed to the there are not a few of them...
Next morning, joking and relaxed, they met in the Roney Plaza's rose-carpeted Ocean Lounge. Reuther heard C.I.O. Secretary Carey reading aloud a Miami Herald report on the "labor bosses," and exclaimed smilingly: "I resent that. Why don't they say 'Trade Union Statesmen Gather in Miami'?" Meany. a cigar clamped in his teeth, sat at the piano and ripped off jazz melodies. The C.I.O.'s Carey put on a shirt printed with the labels of all A.F.L. unions. By noon the last comma was in place, and the full committee of 20 A.F.L...
...winds appeared in full fury. The freak week began with the biggest, blackest cloud of smog within London's memory, suddenly enveloping the nation's noontime capital in midnight darkness. Pedestrians scurried for shelter, and one bearded old prophet paraded in front of Croydon Town Hall crying aloud, "The end of the world has come." The thickest snows in eight years covered all British counties except Cornwall, which had instead the worst floods of half a century. The National Automobile Association officially reported "the worst mixture of terrible road conditions we can remember." The Royal Navy dispatched...
Malraux last week, "the renaissance of French liberalism . . . This liberalism is symbolized by Mendés-France. Should Mendés-France fall, crystallization could take place with surprising rapidity." Calculating aloud, Malraux figured that only 1,500,000 of the 5,000,000 Communist voters were really hard-core supporters...