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Often Neill is voted down by the council. Once he tried to introduce automatic fines for swearing. He took a shrewd line: "Why should I suffer if some fathead swears in front of a prospective parent? It's not a moral question at all; it is purely financial. You swear and I lose a pupil." Said a 14-year-old: "Neill is talking rot. If the parent is shocked he doesn't believe in Summerhill anyway." The council decided to go on swearing...
...version of one of Chester Gould's comic-strip improbables, was smashing all sales records. Sales reached 15,100 (at $6 per head) in the first ten days, were expected to exceed $1,000,000 in retail value by Christmas. "Simply phenomenal," said the doll's proud parent, the Ideal Novelty & Toy Co., Inc. "It appears that sales of this one doll in the five remaining months of the year will exceed the output of the entire doll industry for any year in the past two decades...
...modestly dated its beginning from 1837, when the citizens of Louisville decided to build the first municipal university in the U.S. Last week, however, President John W. Taylor announced a new calculation: the university, he declared, was actually founded 39 years earlier, in 1798, when Jefferson Seminary, its "parent institution," was chartered. Accordingly, he ordered a new round of festivities for next year, to celebrate Louisville U's 150th...
...over the world. Calvert got into the business back in 1897, when all its own pupils were quarantined in their homes by a whooping-cough epidemic. Since then,, mothers all over the world have switched to Calvert. Its courses, complete with textbooks, paper, pencils, pictures and prints-and parent-proof instructions on how to teach, tell stories, deal with disobedience and sex problems-have inched up the Yangtse, been carried on native backs through jungles, been dropped by parachute over snow-covered wastelands...
...other hard-goods manufacturers were still mum on any price rises. But in most of these lines, competition alone was not great enough to force them to hold the line. The only encouraging sign came from Armco's fabricating subsidiary, Sheffield Steel Corp. (bolts, wire, nails, etc.). Despite parent Armco's action, Sheffield, which makes its own steel, said that it plans no price rises...