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...Shake-Up. Until four years ago, the intellectual life was as placid as the setting. Then former Governor William F. Quinn fired the entire board of regents, appointed an energetic new group headed by Dole Corp. President Herbert C. Cornuelle. This board brought in Hamilton, who began a ten-year development program that strives for particular excellence in those fields in which Hawaii enjoys natural advantages. Hamilton sees these as the behavioral sciences related to the area's multicultural citizenry, those cultural disciplines in which "the East-West dialogue is best promoted," and natural sciences tied to Hawaii...
Last week a former Phoumi aide, Colonel Bounleut Sycocie, suddenly ordered three companies of Royal Laotian troops to occupy the Vientiane radio station. Taking over the microphone, Bounleut broadcast a demand for a shake-up in the rightist high command, which the Sananikones interpreted as an attempt at a Phoumi comeback. When Bounleut's troops blossomed out with blue neckerchiefs, Kouprasith's forces replied by donning yellow ones (most Asian armies are well supplied with colored kerchiefs, which are used as identifying insignia for the various battalions...
...problems. Continued he: "This hour represents a great opportunity for white persons of good will, if they will only speak the truth, and suffer, if necessary, for what they know is right." Afterward, he remained for nearly an hour to meet whites and Negroes who stood in line to shake his hand...
...Inauguration balls-and that is just what the President had: a ball. At the Mayflower and the Statler Hilton and the Armory and the Shoreham, and what Lyndon calls the Sheraton-Texas (where most Texans made their headquarters), Johnson stopped long enough to say a few words and to shake hands right and left, just as if he were campaigning. He also got into the crush on the dance floor, as the band played oldies like The Way You Look Tonight and I've Got the World on a String. Luci, the Watusi expert, burned up the floor with...
Beberman says: "The old system was deadly-drill, drill, drill. What I'd like to do is take all these people who say, 'Let's have new math, let's get it into the schools,' and shake them up and say, 'First let's make sure the teachers who are going to teach it know what's going on.'" Badly taught, new math plants confused concepts and creates individuals who cannot even keep their check stubs figured, and Beberman never intended that. "The key thing is computation," he says...