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...time you've passed through those backward countries, India seems like an over-developed area," said Sue. "We drove in a British jeep, which looks like a Brinks armored truck and slept in the back and did our own cooking...
...Representative William J. Green Jr. tried an odd delaying action. He asked that U.S. District Judge John W. Murphy disqualify himself from the case. Chief reason: both Defendant Green and Judge Murphy are Irish Catholics, old political and personal pals. Thus, claimed Green, Murphy might bend over so far backward to avoid favoritism as to be prejudiced against Green (TIME, March 24). Last week Judge Murphy replied to Green-but on a much loftier plane of the law. "As judges," wrote Murphy, "we are neither Jew nor Gentile, neither Catholic nor agnostic. We owe equal attachment to the Constitution...
With rough stuff and great patience, Ergil teaches his slow learners math, and in the bargain teaches them something of self-respect. Said one newly awakened child: "I want .to learn more about everything." When Ergil persuaded school officials to let him try to teach his backward youngsters algebra next year, there were twice as many volunteers from the slow learners as he could handle. Said Principal Baker-of the algebra project: "I don't believe it can be done, but if anyone can do it, he can." With an eye to state programs for low-IQ children...
Senator A. S. Mike Monroney, speaking before the Young Democratic Club Saturday, stated that the Republican administration suffers from a "recession in ideas." He accused the Republicans of "looking backward instead of forward" and of "underestimating the intelligence of the American people...
President Pusey, which expects help "from only one kind of contemporary thinker: the flashy existentialist or teutonic theologian who ministers to the 'Big Questions' with big answers and bigger 'systems.' " Harvard is in a worse way, says Bartley, since "it has become forward to look backward and to call perverse those dry and analytical philosophers who deflate the wind bags of our time instead of blowing up more themselves...