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...been found wanting-so wanting that 5,400,000 voters cast their ballots for the Communists and gave the Communists increased representation in Parliament. But the bluntest verdict came from a bookseller whose only program was a refusal to pay taxes, and whose only remedy was to get rid of the old gang. "Throw the rascals out!" cried Pierre Poujade-and 2,400,000 Frenchmen gave him their vote in what Poujade himself called "an explosion of despair...
...More than 125 newspapers across the nation ran the book as a serial. When the Detroit Free Press published its series, one distraught father wrote in to describe the plight of his son in high school. "They are trying to expel him," he said, "or in some manner rid themselves of him. You know why? Because he cannot read. How in the hell he got as far as loB ... is beyond my means of comprehension." In Louisville, a mother reported on her third-grader's typewriting: "He typed the letters very easily . . . But after typing the letters...
...teaching a pupil to recognize words as wholes. Gradually, word-recognition became the vogue. "There's no doubt about it," says Elementary School Superintendent Oscar M. Chute of Evanston, 111. "Back in the '30s, some educators decided that phonics were no longer useful, so they got rid of phonics...
...Lola had absorbed a set of "bold and novel" notions through the pores of her celebrated milky skin by association with Alexandre Dumas. Her plans to give "freedom" to Bavaria were blocked by what she called "the cloven foot of Jesuitism." After two years, the Jesuits helped Bavaria get rid of her and the King, and she never forgave them...
References. In London, Norman White, 29, was sentenced to eight months in prison after police told in city court how he had taken five jobs in three weeks, got himself fired from each within two hours and collected a week's pay by phoning his new employer: "Get rid of that man White; he's a homicidal maniac...