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...eleven years (1928-39) he spent building the Wichita, Kans. force into a model outfit. A World War II colonel in the U.S. Army, he organized military police systems in England and Italy, later Germany. As dean of the University of California's School of Criminology in Berkeley, Wilson was called in by 13 North American cities from Birmingham to Vancouver, B.C. to reorganize ailing police departments...
...From Berkeley to Cambridge, the wartime baby boom has already hit the country's 100 big-name colleges, and especially those in the East. Last week, as the annual waiting season began, Princeton reported a 20% rise in applications for next fall, "the greatest single jump we've ever had in a year." Yale will cull 1,000 freshmen from 4,800 fee-paid applications, 500 more than last year. Harvard has 5,000 final applicants, a record boost of 900 over last year. Yet freshman classes remain the same size. Harvard will actually...
...valentine-decorated first-grade room of Washington Elementary School in Berkeley, Calif., Teacher Jeanne Gibson last week tested her tots on some questions that would stump most pupils long after they learned to read...
Intuitive Perception. Backed by the Berkeley public schools, the University of California's education department and a $40,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, Karplus set out to "isolate a small number of ideas that underlie all natural phenomena," make these understandable to children by "direct intuitive perception." He first tackled the concepts of position and direction, developed a course called "coordinates." He taught teachers to hook their index fingers together and pull. Said he: "That's the beginning of Newton's Third Law."- Using his curriculum's careful exposition of contact, field and frictional...
...replies. Industrial Psychiatrist W. Ray Poindexter Jr. found, after a 2½-hour screening session for each applicant, that he could recommend more than half for jobs either in the factory or at home. This week eight women and one man so selected were at work on the Berkeley assembly line of B & K Enterprises, making toys, while eight women and three men were doing similar assembly work at home...