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...last week's meeting, C.E.E.B. also: ¶ Announced a significant commission on English, aimed at analyzing the gap between achievement in U.S. high schools and requirements in U.S. colleges. Headed by Floyd Rinker, English chairman at Newton (Mass.) High School, the new group is patterned on C.E.E.B.'s commission on mathematics...
...critics can point to a few direct results of their influence. During the 1956 Suez crisis, several blistering columns by the Times's Gould shamed all three networks into covering the U.N. Security Council debate on the Mideast. After John Crosby rapped CBS for vapid programing, CBS Board Chairman William Paley postponed a European vacation to help whip up something better. This fall, before putting on the air the new private-eye program called Staccato, the producer invited Los Angeles' Humphrey to appraise the opening show. After Humphrey passed judgment-"a miserable piece of junk"-it was scrapped...
Died. Henning Webb Prentis Jr., 75, scholarly careerman (52 years) with Armstrong Cork Co., who rose to be president (1934-50), chairman (since 1950), president of the National Association of Manufacturers (1940); of a cerebral thrombosis; in Lancaster, Pa. As president, Prentis raised annual sales of Armstrong Cork from $22 million to $163 million, assets from $47 million to $112 million, by expanding into over 30 new businesses...
Died. Louis Shattuck Gates, 77, onetime (1930-47) president and board chairman (since 1947) of Phelps Dodge, which he helped make into one of copper's Big Three; in Manhattan...
With U.S. consumer debt at a new high, a top Government economist last week issued a stern call for credit caution. Raymond J. Saulnier, chairman of the President's economic advisory council, told the nation's bankers not to go "overboard" in increasing consumer installment buying. Said Saulnier at the American Bankers Association's annual convention in Miami: "I hope we do not get involved this year or next in a great splurge of consumer expenditure propelled by credit expansion...