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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...machines. The actual machines are simple. They consist of a small control box, something like the transformer of a toy electric railroad, with buttons that advance, hold or return verbal information. This information, called the program, is printed on disks, tapes or cards. One frame, or question-answer unit, appears to the student at a time...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: Psychological Laboratory's Answer To a Teacher Shortage: Machines | 11/28/1958 | See Source »

...rudimentary version of the machine, the student answers by manipulating printed figures or letters. His arrangement of the figures and letters is compared by the machine with the correct answer, in code. If machine answer and student answer are congruent, the machine automatically proceeds to the next frame. If they do not agree, the student's answer is blanked out and he must answer again; the machine will not proceed until the right answer has been set down...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: Psychological Laboratory's Answer To a Teacher Shortage: Machines | 11/28/1958 | See Source »

Graduating seniors were asked to indicate graduate study, job, military service, or other plans, and to answer to only one of these categories. Even though the questionnaire dealt with statements of intention only, from it certain definite assertions can be made, and significant implications drawn, about the immediate post-college fate of seniors...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: After the Ball Is Over | 11/25/1958 | See Source »

...explain the answer, the writers spent two lively, free-associating hours last week on Susskind's couch (WNTA-TV, Newark), a kind of group therapy that left them feeling sorry for themselves together instead of for each alone. Their main reasons for the decline of live TV drama: ¶ The public got bored with the sort of slice-of-life vignettes that Chayevsky and the other "agony boys" used to turn out every month. Eventually, the boys got bored themselves. "I didn't get tired of it," said J. P. (Days of Wine and Roses) Miller. "I just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: The Disgruntled Cadillacs | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...second question, Dr. Bruno Balke supplied a partial answer with rugged training of Air Force volunteers on Mount

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Way Station to Space | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

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