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...been realized, neither have the highest hopes. Sunday-supplement visions of impending universal plenty, with nuclear reactors supplying unlimited cheap power, were grossly premature. Nuclear reactors still cannot produce electric power as cheaply as thermoelectric plants fueled with coal or oil. But mankind has received a huge, unforeseen bonus from the radioisotopes created in nuclear reactors. They are used in countless applications in industry and science, from detecting tiny, hidden flaws in machinery parts to tracing physiological processes in the human body...
...better ways to free them for better teaching. As a result, Pittsburgh boasts the nation's biggest team-teaching effort (8,500 pupils), a solid start in Advanced Placement courses, "lay-reader" housewives who grade English compositions, a 25% higher salary for beginning teachers, and a 10% merit bonus for master teachers. Last year applications for teaching in Pittsburgh schools rose 65%. A skilled lobbyist, Gross quietly wrested $1,500,000 from experiment-minded foundations, got the state legislature to pass a i% wage tax for Pittsburgh schools. Gross calls himself "a three-R man," says...
J.F.K. could have brought Jackie, Caroline, Macaroni and Bobby with him into Michigan, thrown in the Hollywood "rat pack" as an added bonus, and still not have succeeded in swinging any significant number of Democratic, let alone Republican, votes back to Governor Swainson...
...entertainers than can an Employment Office which Mr. Burke admits is strapped by inadequate personnel and an insufficient budget. With part of the burden of Mr. Burke's Employment Office assumed by a new service under Mr. Burke's HSA, the interests of both organizations are served, with the bonus of an all-around increase in efficiency in handling the request of potential employers of students. Indeed, if the purpose of College really were to provide students with money-making opportunities, everybody would gain...
...that they refuse to share the wealth. Profit sharing, supervised by the states, has been part of the Mexican constitution ever since 1917. Moreover, the annual aguinaldos-a bonus of two months' pay at Christmastime-is almost a national tradition. What bothers businessmen about the new provision is the unspecific terms in which it is couched. Before it was introduced, and as it made its rounds, scant effort was made to explain to private interests what the measure would mean in practice...