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Britain's "eleven-plus exam," an IQ measurement plus tests in arithmetic and English composition, was set up in 1944 as the fairest way to channel children into state secondary schools geared to their abilities. But it has turned out to be the infamous instru ment that with dread finality determines whether a child aged 10½ to 11½ is to be high or low in Britain's totemistic society, whether he gets topflight pre-university training or a quick go at a lesser school...
...carillon who gather yearly to talk about what's new in bell ringing. Last week at the Washington Cathedral's inaugural recital on its new $250,000, 53-bell carillon, it was obvious that the church fathers knew just whom to hire to handle their heroic instru ment. The man at the keyboard was Guild President Ronald Barnes...
...stand looks like a portable museum of musical instru ments. Dangling from his neck is a manzello, a quasi saxophone that forgot to grow up, and a stritch, which resembles a dented blunderbuss and hangs well below his knees. The third instrument is more familiar; it is a tenor sax, and stuffed into its bell is a flute. The musician rocks back and forth on his feet as if uncertain how to begin. Then he makes his decision. He puts all three big horns in his mouth at once, and blows like a whale. What spouts forth sometimes sounds like...
...quota, just as Britain had subscribed $1.3 billion, and now the U.S. simply made the cash available. This way of helping Britain suited Treasury Secretary George Humphrey; he did not have to ask Congress for the money. The U.S. decision to use the fund as the main instru ment for supporting Britain was also in line with President Eisenhower's decision to handle the Middle East crisis through the U.N. In both operations, the U.S. turned to the world organizations instead of tackling the problems unilaterally...