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...Lord's on My Side (Jimmy Wakely; Decca). Against some strong competition, this number may rank as the year's most repulsive record. The hero, admitted sad sack, liar and cheat, comes out all right because, by golly, the Lord is on his side. He is prompted in his wobbly confessional by a sanctimonious, echoing female, and goaded by a whining girls' trio in a sickly waltz...
...covered slugs with just the right bouncing qualities, Leverone's engineers countered with electrical devices to test conductiv ity, gauges to measure dimensions, gadg ets to bite for traces of lead or tin. But for years, as fast as Leverone improved his machines, ingenious customers found ways to cheat them, including ""tapping"," i.e., tilting the machine and whacking...
This week, all over Spain, most university students were busily cheating on their final exams. Reported a Madrid university professor serenely: The chuleta situation is "normal." Agreeing, Barcelona's José Suárez explained: "Passing an exam on the honor system would make the whole matter serious. How could one cheat after being honor-bound not to? It's better to be supervised. Then it's our wits against theirs...
...machine is virtually cheat-proof. If a wrong answer is marked correct by a student, the teacher can discover it; and, of course, someone might watch the student at the machine, which could also be set up in a library where a clerk could give out the disks...
...student has correctly translated the sentence, he pushes a lever which marks the paper as correct and adjusts the machine so that that sentence will only appear once more. During a session with the machine, the student must translate each sentence twice. The machine, Skinner claims, is relatively cheat-proof because a teacher can check the answers on the paper with the mark the machine has registered. There would also be a phonograph for dictation drill...