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The article presents various news briefs. U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy has announced that he will not run for the U.S. presidency in 1976. U.S. President Gerald Ford, U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and U.S. Treasury Secretary William Simon blame the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) for a potential worldwide economic crisis. Denis Healey, Great Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer is proposing a wealth tax to make Great Britain a fairer place to live.

World news briefs are presented. The differences in opinion of U.S. Congressional Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and many newly elected Democratic members of Congress are discussed. Debates between the British Labour Party and the Trades Union Congress concerning Great Britain's and NATO's nuclear policies are mentioned. Progress in adopting Civil Rights laws in the Northern states of the United States is analyzed.

This article offers world news briefs. The U.S., Great Britain, and France conferred about a response to Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev's block of access to Berlin, Germany. U.S. Chairman of the Democratic National Committee Paul R. Butler recommended Los Angeles, California as the site of the 1960 Democratic Convention. Additionally, U.S. relations with Communist China are discussed.

This article offers world news briefs. U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his advisors remain fearful about U.S. economic conditions and inflation. First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev delivers an ultimatum to the U.S., Great Britain, and France to withdraw from West Berlin, Germany. Eight members of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee pointed to a disparity between the importance of the military and present economic conditions.

This article focuses on American foreign policy. The intervention of the U.S. and Great Britain in the Middle East both inevitable under the circumstances and a national disaster. To speak of the U.S. alone, this intervention has been made inevitable by the policies pursued, and the commitments entered into, in the Middle East. The defense of Western Europe is such a policy, for the vitality of the nations of Western Europe provides the indigenous element necessary for the defense of the existing distribution of power, guaranteed by the support of the U.S. The intervention in Lebanon fails has no rational connection with the vital interests, the inevitable result of a mistaken policy.

The article presents world news briefs. The communist government of Yugoslavia has reasserted their independence from Soviet communist control. The costs of higher education since 1940 have doubled with costs expected to double again by 1970. Revolt by locals in the British colony of Aden threaten Great Britain's last foothold in the Middle East.

The article presents various world news briefs. The Soviet Union and the U.S. will meet to discusses neutrality in the Middle East. The annual report by the British government on its defense plans outlines a scheme of solidarity with U.S. led defense efforts and the development of a nuclear deterrence. Adlai Stevenson addressed a conference on foreign aid in Washington, D.C.

This article discusses the foreign relationship of Great Britain with the Soviet Union. The British believe that the assurances on the Middle East may be the one significant achievement of the visit. What astonished them was that although they had for years told the Soviet Embassy that Britain regarded the Middle East as of supreme importance, their views had apparently never been passed on to Moscow. The Russians must have hoped that their English tour would be as successful as their jamboree in India--there would be crowds and cheers, so generous that it would amount to a popular demonstration in favor of the Soviet.

The article focuses on the summit, where Great Britain, France, Soviet Union and the U.S. are to meet. The French Government, which fears any consideration of German unification, has pressed for this meeting because it was promised the public in reward for ratification of the Paris and Bonn accords. The Soviet Government, which shares French fears of German unity, has no wish to be pinned down on the terms for unification. Under the procedure now agreed upon, those who meet at the summit are cast in a wholly different role. No settlement of major issues is demanded of them in the course of a few days.

The article discusses about Great Britain's Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill's thesis for nuclear disarmament. Churchill's address of March 1, 1955, is a major endeavor to grapple with the greatest challenge that confronts the world. It's phrasing, as always, is incomparable. Its courage, in sharing with the public the terrible dilemmas of government, is admirable. Its motivating decision that Great Britain should construct her own stockpile of nuclear weapons may well be sound and must at least seem reassuring to the United States. And yet from its greatest spokesman the Western World might have asked for more.

The article presents several political news briefs for the week of February 14, 1955. The United States evacuation of the Tachen Islands off the cost of China puts the U.S. in direct support of the Nationalist Party from the Chinese Civil War. The British government has been engaging both parties in the Chinese Civil War with the hope that negotiations between the two sides will lead to peace and avoid atomic warfare.

Extends the work of Gale and Shapley on an assignment method using the stable marriage criterion to find all the stable marriage assignments. Presentation of a different algorithm for finding one set of stable marriages and comparison with the one derived by Gale and Shapley; Application of the stable marriage theory to the problem of the admission of applicants to the universities in Great Britain.

Focuses on primary schools in Great Britain. Features of educational reforms in Great Britain; Importance of an alternative approach to teaching in Great Britain; Observations on characteristic innovations in British primary schools; Reasons for U.S. interest in Britain's primary schools; Discussion of the slow progress of the junior schools, both in Great Britain and the U.S.

Presents information on the standard of schools in Great Britain. Quality of the educational system; Lack of educational materials and books in junior classrooms; Importance of effective student-teacher relations to enhance the learning of the children; Statement that the Plowden Report described a survey, which said that as children went from the infant to the junior level there is a narrowing of opportunities, a tendency toward regimentation, and a substitution of group or even class teaching for individual work; Reason for the slowness of change in junior schools; Fact that inadequate funds and staff will check the progress of a reform that has made such impressive gains in the infant schools; Discussion of the relationship of teachers with their students.

Addresses the problems on the teaching of Mathematics to preschool children in Great Britain. Mathematical concepts emphasized in the junior years; Limit to the extent to which math can come from children's activities; Disadvantages of formal education in teaching mathematics.

Examines the controversy over the development of the F111 fighter plan which can be suitable for both the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Air Force. Details of the investigation and hearings conducted by the U.S. Congress regarding the development of common weapons system; Description of the version of the aircraft of the Air Force and the Navy; Complications with Great Britain regarding the F111 aircraft.

Part III. Suggests that British primary schools which have been reorganized to promote individual learning could be a workable basis for the schools in the United States. Arguments against the British system, including the question of discipline, reassuring parents of their children's preparedness for life and the methods of progressive education; Unwillingness of public American schools to try progressive education; America's lack of alternative school models.

Part II. Describes elements that have gone into the revolution in British primary schools, some of which could serve as lessons for educational change in the United States. Valuable lessons from the British Plowden Committee's Report, "Children and Their Primary Schools"; Tradition that gives heads of British schools great freedom in matters of scheduling and curriculum and teachers in classroom management; Influence of developmental psychology on British schools; Teaching of mathematics and conservation of numbers; Informal methods of learning.

The article focuses on events involving politics and government in the U.S. A discussion of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. is presented. The U.S. Supreme court ruled that the Georgia state legislature can decide the close election for governor between candidates Lester G. Maddox and Howard H. Calloway. Great Britain has asked the U.S. to join in issuing sanctions against the minority-controlled government of Rhodesia.

Explains how Great Britain could counter any objection that French President Charles de Gaulle might have for its accession to the European Common Market. Acceptance of the common agricultural policy of the common market; Discontinuation of the multilateral force agreement between Great Britain and the U.S.; Awareness that the U.S. outspends all Western European Countries on investments in research and technology; Exploitation of de Gaulle's desire to gain diplomatic advantage with the other members of the common market.

The article presents news briefs for the week of March 27, 1965. Particular attention is given to the domestic and foreign policies of the U.S. Article topics include the Negro protest movement in the U.S., the social policies of U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson, the political activity of students at the University of California, the congressional elections in Argentina, and the political contributions of David Ormsby Gore, the British ambassador to the U.S.

The article presents news briefs for the week of January 30, 1965. Particular attention is given to the domestic and foreign policies of the U.S. Article topics include U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson's State of the Union speech, the assistance of the U.S. Food For Peace program, the legacy of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, as well as the political instability of Dakar, Senegal.

Focuses on the political development during the post-war period in the World. Expansion of the American influence in Europe; Criticism of the British policy related to the matter of Commonwealth; Opinion of the author on the feeling of anti-Americanism and threat from Soviet Union, harbored by the Britishers; Assessment of the post-war policy of involvement; Independence of the free countries of postwar Europe owed their monopoly of atomic power in American hands.

The article presents world news briefs. The provisions in the Pact of Nassau related to Great Britain's control of its own nuclear weapons are analyzed. Great Britain's government is currently controlled by the Conservative party, but unemployment is high and the people are so unhappy that members of the Tory party are expected to sweep the 1963 elections. Brazil's national budget deficit is expected to triple in 1963 and its currency is losing value.

Focuses on the nuclear programs in the U.S. and Europe. Impact of Cuban political crisis on the decision to relinquish the nuclear capability and re-establish an American monopoly in France and Great Britain. Cost of an independent nuclear force; Factors contributing to pursuing an independent military strategy; Creation of a missile test range from the vicinity; Need for the U.S. to a closer correlation between political and military planning.

The article presents world news briefs as of October 17, 1960. There appears to be concern over U.S. presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon's foreign policy views. Janio Quadros won the presidential election in Brazil. British Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell said that Great Britain should continue to be a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

Focuses on political issues in various parts of the world with emphasis on the consideration of potential candidates in the Democratic Party for presidency and vice-presidency in the U.S. Effectiveness of the control of the Democratic party by Senator John F. Kennedy; Appreciation of the idealism of leaders including Eugene McCarthy, Orville Freeman and Gaylord Nelson; Judgment on the choice of politician Lyndon Baines Johnson for vice-presidency by Kennedy; Justification of the opinion that the President Dwight D. Eisenhower Era has been a period of high interest rates; Opinion that as the Democratic nominee, Eisenhower must retain his freedom to attack the Administration's conduct of foreign affairs, as well as the freedom to adopt other policies should he be elected; Adoption of a platform pointed on civil rights by Democrat Chester Bowles; Decision to send a United Nations Emergency Force to the Congo by Improvisor, Dag Hammarskjold; information on the for a one-year extension of the existing sugar quota agreement with Cuba by the House Agriculture Committee's chairman; Discussion of the crisis within the labor Party in Great Britain.

Focuses on various current political issues around the world. Remarks of Soviet Union Premier Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev during his defense of Soviet disarmament proposal; Charges against U.S. diplomat Adlai Stevenson that he was guilty of spreading pro-Communist propaganda; Announcement by U.S. President for the training of Panamanians for skilled jobs; Discussion of Army's rule in Turkey; Selection of Florida's Governor, Leroy Collins as the chairman of the Democratic Convention; Decision of Columbia History Department to arm a staff of historians with tape recorders to interview Americans; Debate over the Submerged Lands Act; Details of the current economic conditions of the U.S.

Presents information on the political and economic development before the forthcoming election in Great Britain; Description of the spending capacity of people in spite of price hike; Information on the condition of public transportation; Comment on the survival of parliamentary democracy; Expansion of the welfare state and mixed economy; Information that the Liberal third party collected only 14 seats in the House of Commons compared with 301 for Labor and 297 for the Tories; Comment on the nationalistic movement.

Discusses disadvantages of a parliamentary government in the U.S. View that Balance of power between the legislative and the executive bodies; Statement that according to the nature of American political tradition, the parliamentary system is an unrealistic alternative; Threat of no-confidence vote in a parliamentary system; Argument that if the President is given the power to dissolve the government, it would lead to the weakening of executive and legislative bodies; Possibility of misuse of the President's executive power by the threat of new elections to keep rebellious legislators in line; Statement that the illusion of the parliamentarists is that Parliament controls the executive; Criticism of each other's political system by the U.S. and Great Britain; View that as Parliament may look better from the United States, so the Congress may look better from England.

The article presents world news briefs. The increase in rates by the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) on loans that the organization insures is discussed. The difficulties that nations would face to ban chemical and biological weapons due to the multitude of places where they could be manufactured is mentioned. The reaction of the press in Great Britain to the visit by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to the United States is discussed.

This article focuses on the problems encountered in the British Labor Party. The argument first arose over the question as to whether or nor Britain should have an H-bomb, and since then he area of dispute has grown progressively wider. The Trades Union Congress had written to the National Executive, suggesting that the movement should look at their clear policy again. Thus, war, or the preparation for war, immediately revives the traditional thoughts and feelings of the party. Curiously enough, the Labor Party seemed to be doing rather well. One of the main things that has been wrong with it during the last two years is that it has become so dull.

Focuses on the economic conditions in Great Britain and change in mass opinion regarding the economic issue from time to time. Views that inflation is Great Britain's biggest domestic problem; Devaluation of the currency of Great Britain; Attempts of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to handle the economic problem; Demands by the trade unions to stop curb in wages; Opinion that Great Britain had to abandon capitalism to win the war; Employment for the population guaranteed in the armed forces; Allocation of goods and services on the basis of presumed need; Rejection of the Industrial Revolution by the common man in Britain; Effect of mass unemployment on the British economy.

Focuses on the spread of anti-Americanism in several countries. Announcement by British Foreign Secretary John Selwyn Lloyd to unconditional withdraw from Port Said; Impact of the collapse of Great Britain's middle east policy on public opinion in Great Britain; Importance of the Middle East in the policy of U.S. Department of State; Description of British complaints against the U.S.; Role of U.S. Foreign Secretary John Foster Dulles in negotiations over the Canal Users Association. Role of the United Nations in international justice.

Reports on the political leadership of Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden in Great Britain. Failure of the liberal elements within the Conservative Party; Announcement of British and French cease-fire in Egypt; Doubt on the capacity for statesmanship of Sir Anthony Eden.

Focuses on allegations of espionage for the Soviet Union, laid down on Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, officials of Great Britain Foreign Office. Purpose of the visit of Burgess and Maclean to the Soviet Union; Statements given by Burgess against the U.S. and in the favor of the Soviet Union to gain publicity; Influence of Burgess on Maclean to indulge in espionage activities; Escape of Burgess and Maclean from Great Britain; Experience of Russian bureaucracy felt by Burgess and Maclean on reaching the Soviet Union; Punishment given to Maclean and Burgess on reaching Moscow, Russia; Evidence of espionage presented at the Foreign Office.

The article focuses on various political developments in Great Britain. Ever since the day the Conservative Party returned by a large majority to another term, it has had a bad time and the leader of the party, Sir Anthony Eden, is under brutal attack, inside his party and the press. The press commented that half the battle of modern statesmanship is the ability to look ahead, to form wise assessments of coming events, and be prepared to make sound judgments and firm decisions and thus it was implied that Sir Anthony is without these essential virtues and therefore not the man to lead the party and the country.

The article focuses on the state of the British Labour Party after Clement Attlee gave his leadership to Hugh Gaitskell. Gaitskell has been elected so easily that he has been shown to have the support of a majority of the Parliamentary Party. At the moment his authority is very firmly based. Gaitskell is a young man and he is utterly of his time. It follows that his conception of socialism bear little resemblance to the dreams of the pioneers. In politics actions are more important than views, and it is the part that Gaitskell played in the great Bevanite struggle that alarms the radical members of the party.

The article discusses Lord Beveridge's autobiography "Power and Influence." The goal which Beveridge set for Great Britain were the provision, as of right, of an income adequate to ensure the necessities of life to all in sickness, invalidity, disability, unemployment, widowhood, orphanhood and old age. For the great lesson Beveridge's book teaches is how much solid reform it has been possible for one man, armed only with knowledge, a disinterested but powerful and imaginative mind and strength of purpose, to bring about in an era in which the exercise of power has come to rest only with those who ally themselves with one or another of the great aggregations of interests.

The article presents information on Homosexuality and the British opinion on it. The number of homosexual offenses known to police in England and Wales had risen from 1,280 in 1938 to 5,443 in 1952, an increase of nearly 400 percent. The author says that a situation has come in which no man with regard for his reputation would dare enter a public urinal after dark. From the cocoons of secrecy and silence with which it had been wrapped for centuries the subject of homosexuality was brought into the open for serious consideration.

Focuses on treaties and agreements between the U.S., the Soviet Union, Great Britain and France concerning the status of West Berlin, Germany. Liquidation of the heritage of the Second World War by these treaties; Probability of political, economical and military developments by these treaties; Effect of the treaties on the stability of the Soviet Empire in eastern Europe; Normalization of relations with the Soviet bloc allows West Germany a freedom of diplomatic and economic maneuver which it never enjoyed before; Fact that the Soviet Union pursues the grand design of filling the empty spaces left by the liquidation of the European colonial empire.

Discusses role of infant schools in reading and writing skills of children in Great Britain. Educational technique of teachers to educate children; Argument about reading and writing programs for children in various junior schools; Factors responsible for development of writing skills in children; Development of course materials for quick learning; Advantages of reading vocabulary to children.

Considers how the next United States Administration will react to proposals for the formation of a North Atlantic Free Trade Area (NAFTA) involving the U.S., Canada and Great Britain. Core of the NAFTA concept; Potential impact of NAFTA on British balance of payments and the American economy; Likely effect of NAFTA on American investment in Great Britain; Reaction of Europeans to the NAFTA proposal; Implication of the NAFTA concept on global economy.

Looks at the economy and political conditions of Great Britain as of June 1967 and its effect on the global economy and politics. Scenarios describing the diminishing power of Great Britain; View of Great Britain that the chances of a U.S. victory in Vietnam by 1968 are slim; Failure of the British economy to reach the economic growth target of the government; Views on the plan of the British government to build houses and to eliminate scandalous maltreatment of old people and schoolchildren; Opinion of the Tories that socialism and taxes are destroying the initiative of the government.

Presents an analysis of the achievements and failures of the administration of British Prime Minister Harold Wilson as of April 1967. Assessment of the economic conditions in the country under Labour Party leadership; Factors which contributed to the rising unemployment rate; Comment on the action taken by the party to counter the impact of devaluation.

Presents an article about the social, economic and political conditions in East Germany in 1967. Comparison of the living standards in East and West Germany; Introduction of a new nationality law in East Germany; Contribution of the Soviet Union to the East German shipping industry; Plan to expand the foreign economic relations between East Germany and Great Britain.

Focuses on the history of the national establishment in the U.S. Background on the bases used by the British and the French in selecting the members of their respective national establishments, which the U.S. used; Reason behind the emergence of an industrial-financial establishment in the 1890s in the U.S.; Details of the systematization of the national establishment of the country starting from the administration of President John F. Kennedy; Types of skills considered by the administration of President Lyndon Johnson in selecting the members of the establishment.

Comments on the effort of the Labour government of Great Britain to remove the distinction between grammar schools and secondary modern schools under a system which separates school children adjudged by examination as intelligent or less intelligent. Task entrusted to local authorities of creating schemes whereby all children between ages 11 and 18 will attend comprehensive schools; Middle class alarm over the prospect of large comprehensive schools, in which the able mingle with the dim, and the high with the lowly; Secretary of State for Education Anthony Crosland's open-minded about how a comprehensive school should function.

This article offers world news briefs for the week of May 29, 1965. Particular focus is given to U.S. efforts and foreign policy in South Vietnam regarding communism. The article also addresses the absence of tax reforms in U.S. government legislation. Further topics discussed in the article include race relation legislation in Great Britain, potential changes to the drafting system of the U.S. military, and the nomination of James P. Coleman to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Examines the implications of the increasing military power of India, as of December 1964. Significance of the support given by the U.S., Great Britain and the Soviet Union to India to the development of the military capabilities of the latter; Comparison of the military forces of India and China; Concerns regarding a possible military understanding between Pakistan and China due to the growth in the military power of India.