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...each visit on arrival at the laboratory--no matter how late they might be for the appointment. This follows the theory of "immediate reinforcement" developed by B.F. Skinner, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology. After a few sessions the youths began attending regularly and the researchers had passed the first barrier: they had overcome to a degree the "no-work ethic" of the group and instilled a congnizance of time. The "identification" resulting from continued association could then take place. The boys became gradually accustomed to regular, though part-time, employment...
...Tilt. Do alliances then no longer matter? In general terms, the U.S. would like to keep decisively on its side those nations which border the vast Communist heartland and which present the first barrier against Red seepage. Those nations are most threatened, and their fate is most crucial to the free world. Said the Philippines' Chief Delegate Francisco Delgado: "We cannot all be neutrals. Some of us have to perform the unpleasant and even dangerous duty of helping to keep the scales of power in equilibrium. The moment these scales are badly tilted one way or the other...
...France have been content to rest their atomic monopoly on the prohibitive cost and inordinate difficulty of building the monster gaseous-diffusion plants and plutonium-yielding reactors in which they carry out large-scale production of fissionable materials. Now the West German scientific breakthrough appears to have smashed that barrier and opened the way to atoms for anybody with the technologists competent to handle them...
...Lower East Side. Some The 40,000 of Bronx the hispanos are Protestants, about 500,000 Catholics most of the remainder are unchurched. Billy was delighted at the turn out, despite competition from a World Series and a Nixon-Kennedy TV debate. As usual, language was anything but a barrier to Billy-talking through an interpreter, he suggests, gives a his English-speaking hearers more of a chance to think. With the Rev. Rogelio Archilla of Manhattans Dewitt Reformed Church panting through a skilfull rapid-fire translation on the opposite side of the platform. Evangelist Graham kept the pace fast...
...been much influenced by the prevailing African drift toward one-party authoritarian national government, the internal division of forces tends to bolster constitutionalism and democracy by providing a built-in opposition. It remains to be seen whether it also provides, as some accuse it of doing, a built-in barrier to decisive and constructive action...