Word: charts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...follow the returns, the Agriculture Department set up a regular election-night headquarters, expected to chart the ebb and flow of the vote late into the night. But by 7 p.m., Room 6768 in the department's main Washington building was a glum place. Far from giving Freeman's plan the necessary two-thirds, farmers refused it even a simple majority. The final vote was 547,151 for, 597,776 against (see box on following page...
...Glueck Social Prediction Chart, probably the most realistic appraisal of the background of delinquency yet made, is based on these factors...
...Gluecks' research can be of great practical use. For example, one study of 200 soldiers who had committed military offences indicated that 85 per cent of them would have been denied induction on the basis of Glueck chart scores. The treatment of recalcitrant children can hopefully be undertaken even before school to deflect predicted delinquency. Some judges have indicated that the scores might help them in sentencing juvenile offenders...
...reason for the upsurge is that ever since World War II the average age of U.S. machine tools has been rising steadily (see chart). The latest census of the American Machinist magazine (taken only every five years) showed last week that 64% of the nation's machine tools are now ten or more years old v. only 38% in 1945. Though many of the older machines included in the count are not in use because enough newer ones are available to satisfy current demand, the census nevertheless is a dramatic warning that U.S. industry is in danger of getting...
...taking stock. "TV being essentially a spectacle," says France-Soir President Robert Salmon, "the press should become more and more explanatory, not only giving the news but explaining it." France-Soir's diminutive (5 ft. 2 in.) Editor Pierre Lazareff, 55, has set up a study group to chart new ways to lure back readers, is planning to bring out a remodeled paper soon with the same appearance but a greater depth and variety of coverage and "a new tone which will be saisissant." Parisien Libere is experimenting with special suburban editions to combat burgeoning local dailies. To reduce...