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...about 450 that went by Teletype or telephone to bureaus and reporters throughout the world last week. They ranged from Nation and Business inquiries about the economic situation to an Education request for a full report on a revolutionary computer teaching aid being developed in East Palo Alto...
Computerized teaching, long tested and talked about, goes into operation this week. More than 100 first-graders at East Palo Alto's predominantly Negro Brentwood School will begin learning math and reading from a good-humored, patient, quick-minded machine...
...student tutoring that matches his unique needs. Confronted with 20 or 30 kids at once, the teacher simply cannot achieve that goal. "Computer technology," says Dr. Patrick C. Suppes, 44, director of Stanford's Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences and developer of the East Palo Alto system, "provides the only serious hope for accommodating individual differences in subject-matter learning...
...utterances from the trumpets, the Gabrielli was most satisfactory. While here and in the Sarti one might have hoped for a slightly less room-fulling sound from the organ, the ecclesiastical air of the music was quite effective. Soloists for the In Ecclesiis were Sally Thomas, Soprano; Pamela Gore, alto; Carl Schmidt, tenor; and James Jonse, baritone. The Sarti Fugue, a double fugue of a relatively primitive sort, demonstrated the ability of the singers to make a somewhat intricats, overworked piece into a worthwhile listening experience...
Slicing through the rolling countryside near Palo Alto, and flanked by newly planted oak and eucalyptus trees, the low, two-mile-long structure could easily be mistaken for a new link in California's growing network of freeways. Instead of automobiles, however, it will handle streams of speeding electrons. It is Stanford University's linear accelerator, the newest tool in one of the newest and fastest-growing disciplines of science, high-energy physics. When it achieves full power and goes into operation this fall, the largest atom smasher in the world will give man a closer look...