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Friendly Partnership. The next day Horse Lover Jackie whisked off to watch wide-eyed as 34 red-coated Mounties put their horses through an intricate drill. President Kennedy, settling back in a rocking chair that Diefenbaker had provided for the occasion, talked informally with the Prime Minister. The substance of Kennedy's views came out in his address later in the day before the massed members of the Canadian Parliament, who banged their desks in a traditional salute for Jackie when she entered the gallery, and banged them again for the President when he appeared behind the floodlit lectern...
...University's three ROTC units will hold the year's final drill today--the annual Joint Review. Beginning at 2:30 p.m. behind Watson Rink, the day's activities include a drill team competition and awards to students. An Air Force Bagpipe Band will provide music for the Army, Navy, and Air Force marchers...
Mayer has a fetish about progressive education, and at times seems to equate "progressive" with "good." He is 100 per cent for the "project" approach to teaching, and is foursquare against the use of drill. To him, the "direct" method of language instruction is the only way, and he decries any attempt to explain rules or reasons. He sees little use for clerical mathematics or fully worked-out answers: "Most arithmetical problems that come up in life (or in science, for that matter) require only approximate answers...
...blare of bugles and the whine of bagpipes cut through the chilly Washington night as crack armed forces drill teams wheeled and countermarched on the floodlit White House lawn. From a bal cony watched President John F. Kennedy, and at his side was a welcome guest: Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba, 57, the father of his young country and a staunch friend of the West...
John Kennedy and Habib Bourguiba hit it off splendidly during Bourguiba's state visit to Washington last week. Though he is something of a hypochondriac, Bourguiba diplomatically disregarded a sore throat to sit bareheaded with Kennedy to watch the drill teams-and picked up a touch of bronchitis that forced him to cancel trips to Texas and Tennessee...