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Last week New York University's School of Education reported that 26 graduate students were taking the nation's first collegiate course in writing comic books. Reason for the course: since most U.S. schoolchildren (and most adults) read comics, N.Y.U. had begun to think that U.S. educators better learn how to produce constructive ones...
...Religious Stigma." New Jersey's Attorney General Theodore D. Parsons moved for dismissal on the grounds that no proof had been offered that Gloria had suffered "any harm or damages from the reading of the verses"-especially since the law did not require that schoolchildren be present when the Bible is read. But Lawyer Zimel used the argument of Vashti McCollum in the Champaign case: he insisted that a pupil's absence during the reading inflicts upon him "a religious stigma and sets him apart from his fellows...
...Kenny dethroned him in Jersey City last May. Wene, besides Hague's dubious help, also had the ill-advised support of Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop James A. McNulty, who opposed Driscoll's position against bingo (TIME, Oct. 24), and ordered nuns to distribute circulars to parochial schoolchildren urging the election of the Hague candidate. The potent C.I.O. stayed "neutral," and, though it didn't want to admit to admiring a Republican, covertly worked for Driscoll...
...celebrated the day, it did not seem funny at all. For at 90, John Dewey was still the nation's most noted living philosopher, who had perhaps had more influence on 20th Century America than any other thinker of his day. He had changed the lot of U.S. schoolchildren and molded the minds of their teachers. Supreme Court justices had felt his influence and so had historians, psychologists, artists and politicians. He was the philosopher of a changing America which had found Europe's formal philosophic traditions hard to adapt to day-to-day living. As the nation...
...Jhelum's steep banks thousands of Srinagar citizens watched the procession, occasionally set off firecrackers. Carefully coached schoolchildren shouted "Jawaharlal Nehru Zindabad!" (Long live Jawaharlal Nehru) and "Sher-i-Kashmirl" (Long live the Lion of Kashmir-Sheikh Abdullah). Merchants took advantage of a good opportunity, strung their rugs from house windows for all to see and buy; some erected huge banners across the river, with slogans like "Welcome from Ali Mohamed-best Persian and Kashmiri carpets...