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Plunging Roots. Socony Mobil uses films in a fine game for teenagers. Thirty-six kids at once sit in drivers' seats, hold steering wheels, adjust themselves to brakes and accelerators, and stare at a road ahead of them which is shown on small, individual screens. With a whoosh and voom, they're off, all 36 zinging up the same road in a contest to see who is the most economical and safest driver. They are graded electronically as they meet situations-a school bus discharging its tender cargo, an idiot driver warping and woofing all over the right...
...emphasized that the rolling system "gets the air cleared very quickly" and lets applicants adjust their plans with a minimum of delay...
...every six applicants fail to reach the training program (although at a place such as Harvard, five out of six make it), and more are dropped during training. Only one and one half percent of those who reach field assignments are sent home because of failure to adjust...
...important and well paying, they try to plant at least three bugs to catch low-toned conversations in all parts of a room; then tiny cameras, often hidden in radiators or air conditioners, can be triggered by radio control. The most advanced still cameras advance their own film and adjust their shutters to different lighting conditions, but for a really fancy job a TV camera is the thing. Though it takes hard-to-hide coaxial cable, the TV set need be only eight inches long and an inch or so in diameter; its lens can peer through an inconspicuous opening...
...Even if a Negro school were made academically superior," he says, "it would still be unequal, for it could not adjust the child to the context of the culture in which he lives." Galamison called in Bayard Rustin, who worked out the organization of last summer's March on Washington, to run the planned boycott...