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...spread like panty raids. No fewer than 154 U.S. colleges and universities require basic Army ROTC for every able-bodied nonveteran in freshman and sophomore classes. (Another 80 schools have small volunteer units.) Training officers admit that Army's basic ROTC enrollment (national total: 127,000 students) might fall to one-fifth of the present level in some schools if compulsion ended...
...head before he went to first grade, Harvard-trained (Ph.D., 1948) Karplus got to worrying about schools after he became a father (three girls, two boys, a sixth child on the way). Listening to teachers talk about the problems of teaching science, he decided that high schools fall down on training good college students because they get ill-prepared prospects out of grade school. Karplus' solution: "A compulsory common curriculum in the elementary school...
...Gift. But were the Post-Dispatch stories relevant as news? By the paper's own accounting, Frank Prince had stayed in the clear for the last 35 years. The manner in which the stories came about added even graver doubts as to their moral merit. Last fall Prince gave $500,000 to St. Louis' Washington University. Although he attached no strings to the gift, the university planned to name a building after him. It was while gathering biographical material on Philanthropist Prince that the crime-hunting Post-Dispatch came across the facts of his distant past-and decided...
Decline & Fall. In Upton, Dorset County, England, dismayed by the shoddy condition of one of the town's roads, D. K. Coleman fired off a letter to Italy, asked the Romans to come back to Britain and repair the road they built 1,600 years...
Made by Mikhail Kalatozov, a middle-aged associate of Eisenstein's, The Cranes Are Flying tells the story of two young students (Tatiana Samoilova and Alexei Batalov) who fall in love just before the Nazi invasion. He rushes off to the army, leaving her a letter of explanation, but the letter is mislaid, and she thinks she has been jilted. When her parents are killed in an air raid, she goes to pieces and lets herself be seduced by a no-good draft-dodger who plays the piano. She spends the rest of the picture in Siberia, nursing wounded...