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...August's top ten moneymakers as reported by Variety: 1) North by Northwest (M-G-M), 2) Anatomy of a Murder (Columbia), 3) Hole in the Head (United Artists), 4) Porgy and Bess (Columbia), 5) South Seas Adventure (Cinerama), 6) The Nun's Story (Warner), 7) The Big Circus (Allied Artists), 8) Darby O'Gill and the Little People (Buena Vista), 9) Five Pennies (Paramount), 10) Last Train from Gun Hill (Paramount...
...spent another $15.6 million on two vibrant experiments: "Intern" college-student teachers and "teaching teams." By practicing in nearby schools, interns get enough credit to skip a tedious year of postgraduate study. And often they join teaching teams (being tried in Baltimore this year) that could solve a big problem: the discouraging salary ceiling that a teacher reaches after 15 years. Some teams have equally ranked specialists. Most have a "master" teacher who gives the main presentation, then turns over the class to several journeymen, apprentices and clerical aides. The master (salary: up to $15,000) is free for another...
Strong Medicine. Yet all the big innovations-images of the future-depend on local control and local money. Few states really control curriculums except New York, with its 175-year-old Board of Regents (patterned on French education). And few states provide enough money. All the states together carry 40% of the total U.S. school budget, compared to 57% by local governments...
...could do to keep ahead in the race to make better jets. "If we had gone into rockets, we might not have had our J-57-" said he, and the J-57, which powers almost all U.S. bombers and fighters, as well as the commercial jets, has been a big moneymaker. But now, United is spending heavily on rocket and nuclear engines and on dozens of other space projects to get out ahead in rockets as it was in jets...
North American was also one of the companies to get in first, even though it held big contracts for its F-86 and F-100 fighters. It figured that the fighter might well be shelved by missiles, started right after World War II to get ready. Now, with its Rocketdyne Division making many of the big rocket engines and with a backlog of $758 million for projects running from nuclear reactors to the X-15 (the plane that is expected to be the first to fly into space), North American's profits are on the upturn. They will rise...