Word: otto
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...your account [March 2] of the home school provided for Tommy Kral by his parents Otto and Mary, it occurs to me that their determination to give adequate training to children who meet no real challenge in our public school systems could well be rewarded with something better than court action. Let's have a movement to change our educational laws so that children educated at home would be required to pass examinations provided by the public school system. This would eliminate the undesirable leveling of above average children and relieve public school overcrowding...
Divorced. Otto Preminger, 52, Vienna-born Hollywood producer-director (Saint Joan, The Moon Is Blue): by Mary Gardner Preminger, 40, his second wife, who punctuated a crossfire of adultery charges with the information that Preminger's temper is so hot that he sometimes gets down on all fours and beats his head on the floor; after seven years of marriage, no children; in Hollywood...
Tommy's only trouble is that he does not go to school. His parents, Otto Kral, farmer-mathematician, and his wife Mary belong to the Council for Basic Education, whose members argue, often in luxuriantly polemical terms, that much of U.S. education is rotten with soft courses and "life adjustment" theories. After Tommy's first-grade year at the Lakeland-Afton public elementary school-where he got instruction in such matters as "language arts and social studies, whatever that means," Mary Krai recalls with scorn-his parents refused to send him back. Instead, they set up a stiff...
Geneva corridor talk brought some sharp if still baffled evaluation of the Pope's motives in calling the Rome meeting. Germany's Evangelical Bishop Otto Dibelius hopefully felt that the Pope might be acknowledging the World Council's strength (171 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox churches in 53 countries, with a combined membership of close to 350 million, compared to an estimated 496 million Roman Catholics). Martin Niemoeller, outspoken German pacifist, envisioned a papal effort "to wean away the Eastern Orthodox churches from the World Council. I do not think this will work. The council has more practical...
...Capitol staffer puts it. at a 45° angle; if he tilts to 50°, the whole Hill knows that Clarence Cannon is on a rampage. He judges his subcommittee chairmen by the amount by which they can cut budget requests. Last year his star pupil was Louisiana's Otto Passman, who applied a $872 million meat ax to the foreign aid bill (the Senate restored some of the cut). He held Passman up to the full committee as a shining example of the positive statesman. Says Cannon: "Of course they all laughed...