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Today's high schools, says the Committee, have "the incomparably difficult task of meeting, in ways which they severally respect and will respond to, masses of students of every conceivable shade of intelligence, background, means, interest, and expectation...
...Committee, in the case of high schools, does not view a tightening in the curriculum as the shield against these dangers. It suggests, indeed, "even a greater diversity than exists at present in the still largely bookish curriculum, since nothing else will match the actual range of intelligence and background among students...
...Meeting Place. Several miles from the compound was the meeting place of the Big Three. There, on the castle grounds the Russians had planted a courtyard with red flowers in the shape of a huge red star, set against a background of smooth, carefully mowed lawn. Inside was a dark-paneled main room, furnished with a crimson carpet overlaid with a red and purple Oriental rug, a 12-ft. circular table and 15 chairs, desks for secretaries and stenographers. From the room, hallways led to private suites. Off the main room was also the main dining room, where Baptist Harry...
...begins in North Africa and ends with the march on Rome. Along that long, bloody road Ernie Pyle is omnipresent, but so self-effacingly (at Pyle's insistence) that he never emerges as much more than "the little guy" in the background. The story is well knit together from incidents in Pyle's best-selling books...
...spent more time in the last few years inside than outside of his jails. Among them were the Congress Party's Moslem President Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (both newly released from jail), and the Congress Party's moderate, resourceful lawyer Chakravarti Rajagopalachariar. In the background hovered the little man in the dhoti, Mohandas K. Gandhi, freed over a year ago. He was not participating in the conference, but his influence permeated it. Also present were the Moslem League's dapper, fractious President Mohamed Ali Jinnah, the Sikh leader Tara Singh, the Punjab...