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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...couple more diplomatic blunders like the ones we made this past month, and it will be Iron Curtain for US as a world power. We're already not treated as one. After Ike's recent successes, I begin to agree that the best course for him to take is the golf course, after all. For the fondest hope this Administration can cherish is that history will judge it by its score rather than on its record...
...Junior High School?" is the theme of the Conference on Educational Administration, which will be held Thursday and Friday, July 14 and 15. As in the past, the conference will be open to registered students...
...endlessly fascinating playground is revealed to him by his Indian chum, Buckety, who first greets him: "We can be brothers and cross ourselves with clam juice and chicken blood to prove it." Woven into the boys' Huck Finn adventures is a darker tale of the Indians' past. From his grandfather, Jerrod learns of the Indians' once robust life, of how they hunted whales in canoes and dragged the carcasses back to shore as the symbol of their power...
...novel's end. the violent past has caught up with the placid present. The Indians are soon corrupted by the liquor that Jerrod's father illegally sells them. Civilization intrudes in other ways; a hard-boiled woman reporter publicizes Teawhit, drawing crowds of bumptious tourists, and con men stage a carnival and a rodeo-cheap shows that fake what once was real and vital. In the first of a series of almost ceremonial deaths, one Indian rams his model T into an imitation totem pole. Little Buckety dies when he falls off a bronco at the rodeo. Author...
...Tenth Man. Stumbling into sentimentality, Playwright Paddy Chayefsky nevertheless sensitively manages to sketch the story of a troubled young couple who employ the superstitions of the past as a help in facing the realities of the present...