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Biggest obstacle to the spread of Progressive Education has been college entrance requirements. Progressives claim that these requirements: 1) keep high-school curricula in a strait jacket; 2) are unfair to the five out of six high-school students who never go to college. Because colleges insisted that students could not cope with college unless they had prescribed doses of mathematics and foreign languages, P. E. A. eight years ago made U. S. colleges a sporting proposition: let them admit students without these requirements and see what happened...
...seaman to drown in the sinking of the first U. S. vessel sunk by the Axis-the 5,883-ton freighter City of Rayville (Tampa, Fla.). The ship apparently hit a mine, presumably laid by the same raider that had previously mined antipodean waters (TIME, July 1) in Bass Strait, between Australia and Tasmania. (A few hours earlier an unidentified British freighter had met the same fate.) Third Engineer Mac B. Bryan of Randleman, N. C. leaped overboard from the City of Rayville without a life belt. Unable to swim, he yelled through the darkness to his mates but they...
Chile is the nearest country to the Antarctic. According to Government reasoning, the area claimed was a logical extension of Chile proper and of its Andes Mountains, which disappear in Drake Strait, reappear in the Antarctic. What Chile hoped to gain from the new colony was less explainable. Though deposits of minerals, principally coal, have been reported in the frozen Antarctic mountains, none of commercially profitable quality has ever been found. As a control point on the southern seaway between the Atlantic and Pacific, as a possible refueling base for a South America-Australia air route, the Antarctic presented only...
...Stalin to have Turkey, a secondary power, control the Bosporus is bad enough, but to have one of his rival dictators, Hitler or Mussolini, dominate the Straits would place him in an economic strait jacket. With them around, his chance of getting it for himself is small but he has every reason for cooperating with Turkey and Bulgaria to keep his rivals out, chiefly by lending the use of his Black Sea Fleet based on Nikolaev and Sevastopol. If Hitler and Mussolini are seriously weakened so that he does not have to fear war with them, he might well attempt...
...Mussolini's most practical route into the Balkans lies across the Strait of Otranto, on one side of which he has a base at Brindisi and at the other the fortified island of Saseno. In April 1939 he took Albania, which gave him a jumping-off place on the far side. Thence an Italian Army, unless it meets opposition from the forces of some real power, could make its way through Greece, or via Monastir in Yugoslavia to Salonika. From that point it could either ascend the Vardar River Valley towards Nish, or if that route is blocked...