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...Oppressed. In Akron, an eleven-year-old boy admitted to police that he had set fire to his schoolhouse in three places, explained that Teacher James Appleby had made him brush his teeth...
From the dusty lowlands of San Diego County, the road leads up Palomar Mountain in sharp, steep curves. Near the top the air turns cold; the dry, thorny brush of southern California yields to evergreen forests. Deer bounce across the roadway; squirrels peek from the incense cedars; through the primitive underbrush pads an occasional mountain lion. But the summit of Palomar Mountain is one of the high points of the 20th Century. For there stands the dazzling new 200-inch telescope that will peer a billion lightyears* into space-man's deepest look at the unknown universe he lives...
This approach was familiar to Eleanor Steinert, who has covered the Chicago angles of TIME'S Petrillo stories for the last two years. Her first brush with the boss of the musicians' union was a by-product of the press conference at which he said: "We don't want any victories or any rights. All we want to do is live." Western Union transmitted it as "love," and TIME printed it that way. At a later press conference Petrillo leveled a finger at Miss Steinert and hollered: "There's that gal from TIME magazine that said...
...under 14. Author Platonov put his two Crumbs in a hunter's beard, and there got them into arguments. Gunpowder Crumb threatened to blow up not only Bread Crumb, but self, beard and hunter. At the moment of crisis, a sparrow snatched Gunpowder from the hunter's brush and was heroically destroyed when Gunpowder exploded. Bread Crumb, meanwhile, came to his appointed happy end. The hunter ate him. Platonov's moral: "Bread gave the hunter strength. Gunpowder wanted to singe the whole world but only burned a sparrow." In Baba-Yaga's Russia such a feeble...
...often impatient with his insistence on first things first. Washington complained that they wanted to learn about cube roots before learning the multiplication tables. They talked glibly of having mastered "banking and discount," but most of them still ate with their fingers. He taught them how to wash, to brush their teeth, to plow and plant ("trained farmers are as much needed as trained teachers"), how to make bricks and shoe horses. Then he taught them how to read and write, and something of history and literature. It was his idea to turn out, not scholars or statesmen, but skilled...