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...Science in General Education, headed by Jerome Bruner, called for courses that would "communicate knowledge of the fundamental principles of a special science," and that would also "give the student an idea of the methods of science as they are known today." How much this differs from the concept of the Redbook committee is made clear by the following sentences from the Bruner report...
Wilkins admits that his work aims more at achieving specific ends than at generating mass awareness. He considers the concept of mass action "something of a fantasy." "People have to be manipulated," he says. "Movements are carried through by a very small elite. School boycotts and similar massive techniques can at times be effective, but all too often boycotts get mixed up with politics. Then the people involved become more interested in fighting City Hall than in getting better schools." But he thinks the Boston school boycott's leaders had acted wisely, with a clear understanding of ends...
...Supreme Court disagreed. It held that the Government mistakenly applied the law retroactively to cover crimes committed while Costello was still a citizen. The "relation-back" concept, as Justice Potter Stewart called it in his majority opinion, was "a legal fiction, at best." If it applied in Costello's case, said Stewart, it could also apply to someone whose original naturalization "was not fraudulent, but simply legally invalid upon some technical ground...
...government-directed monopoly, has also suffered from its postwar breakup into seven independent and fiercely competitive companies, none of which is strong enough alone to finance major developments. And the situation has not been helped by the refusal of the old-time individualistic planemakers to accept the modern concept of team design; the traditionalists believe, as does Pioneer Designer Willy Messerschmitt, now 65, that "the old hares can do the job better...
Canham pointed out that the United States has abandoned its attempt to defeat Communism in the near future and has tacitly accepted the concept of a bipolar world. He saw the role of the small countries as one of maintaining contact between the two great powers. "More contact," he emphasized, "is essential for a stable and rational relationship between the two world leaders...