Word: affections
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...case was scheduled to go to the jury this week. The verdict would affect the reputation of two of the South's most famous football coaches and that of a famous old magazine as well...
...jury with as little prejudice as possible against his client. To help lawyers assess prospective jurors, a research team working under the auspices of New Jersey's Fairleigh Dickinson University persuaded some 500 persons of varied backgrounds to take an elaborate test designed to reveal prejudices that might affect their judgment as jurors. The test was set up to detect both "overt" and "covert" prejudices. The findings, released this week, include a lot of surprises about who is, or is not, biased toward whom...
...that would have been fore cast on the basis of the known relation ship between final achievement and some measure of aptitude or of initial achievement, or some combination of measures of both." Whew. Actually, the point is that "scientific" testmakers can not yet measure the human variables that affect academic success in school and college. Thorndike's book deserves to be read - or translated. It's a splendid task for the stouthearted non-scholars of Washington University...
...provide an adequate answer remains quite an open question. The problem involves other elements: discrimination in housing, which keeps Negroes in the ghetto areas; discrimination in employment, which not only limits the ability of the average Negro family to move away from the ghetto, but also has a deleterious affect on the school work of the children. And there are others...
...week revealed considerable opposition to the Federal Reserve Board's discount-rate hike on the part of Congressmen who fear that it may restrain domestic economic expansion; the Board itself is known to have split over the move. While supporting the increase on the ground that it will affect mostly short-term borrowing, Walter Heller, the President's chief economic adviser, showed his concern about any further rate rises: "Clearly, this is no time for tightening long-term credit...