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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...President sent a task force from the waiting Seventh Fleet into action. U.S. convoys escorted Chinese Nationalists toward the three-mile limit of Quemoy, and sent the Chinese the rest of the way in LSTs and LSMs. Overhead, Chinese Nationalist ace pilots, in U.S.-built planes, bloodied the Communist MIGs. Little by little, Quemoy was provisioned and armed to the beaches with 155-mm. howitzers, mortars and tanks. From Moscow, Khrushchev demanded the fleet's withdrawal on pain of an all-out war. But the U.S. naval escort, keeping carefully outside the international three-mile limit, maintained the needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: QUEMOY & MATSU | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

...continuing instruction in the same language through twelfth grade. ¶ Homework should increase from one hour a day in seventh grade to two hours in ninth grade. But it should be "meaningful" homework, carefully explained in advance, and not mere "drudgery."¶ Since "mastery of basic skills" is the task at hand, the unskilled should repeat grades. But because of the "social and psychological problems involved with overage pupils," Conant suggests that no child repeat more than two years in the first eight grades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Conant II | 10/24/1960 | See Source »

...quality but has exalted direct acts on intuition at the expense of coherent If parliamentarianism is meant to refer discussion of concrete issues in a patient to arrive at solutions, this characteristic be regarded as the unfortunate antithesis Parliamentarianism. This fact has made the of parliamentary democracy a painfully task in Japan. Herein lies, we believe, problem of Japanese politics today, and whenever we turn to the analysis of events. There has been much talk of , anti-Americanism, violence, and in Japan. All these should be looked the context of the survival of parliament-arism in that country...

Author: By Tatsuo Arima and Akira Iriye, S | Title: Parliamentarism in Japan: Can it Survive? | 10/22/1960 | See Source »

...martyr of the Socialist cause. he is a martyr of the constitutional of democracy in Japan. Before comfortable silence might again vail under the tyranny of the left right, those who have once learn a lesson of such a tyranny should forth and dedicate themselves arduous task of maintaining a Parliamentary democracy in Japan

Author: By Tatsuo Arima and Akira Iriye, S | Title: Parliamentarism in Japan: Can it Survive? | 10/22/1960 | See Source »

...course, most college-educated young men, Goodman, "make up the tribes of salesmanship, entertainment, business management, , and advertising." In this world, attention is paid to the object, the , the program, the task, the need; but immense attention to the role, procedure, prestige, profit." It is a world of role-players, whose performance calms their gnawing feelings frustration and worthlessness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amid Missed Revolutions, Growing Up Absurd | 10/21/1960 | See Source »

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