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Among the scientific professions listed are: chemist, design engineer draftsman, geologist, geophysicist, mathematician, microbiologist, physicist and physiologist...
...qualified to analyze objectively the "relative importance or practicability" of the 14 educational goals listed in the White House Conference report [Dec. 19]? Naturally, Chemist Joel Henry Hildebrand insists that mathematics and science are the most important. Yet nothing is either practicable or important if never used. Those who bemoan declining registrations in high-school math and science courses should first survey the extent to which these subjects are subsequently used...
...every stage," said Chemist Hildebrand, "there were watchful men who honestly believe more in 'social competency' than in grammar and arithmetic, and, because good-natured committeemen try to fix up their reports so as to make every member happy, anything seriously critical of certain doctrines and practices largely responsible for the present deplorable and dangerous situation [in the schools] could not get through." In discussing Topic i-What should our schools accomplish?-six members out of eleven at Hildebrand's Table No. 40 flatly declared that the schools are trying to do too much. But when...
...inexpensive (97?) pen, which wrote well and did not leak. Frawley bought him out for $18,000, rented a factory for $450 a month and started manufacturing Paper-Mate pens. To solve the problem of fading and transferable ink, he used a new ink that a Hungarian chemist mixed in a makeshift home lab. Frawley's first selling coup was to talk two banks into cashing checks written with his pens. Then Frawley started a big advertising campaign to plug the only pens with "bankers' approval." By using high-pressure selling in stores, bright, eye-catching counter displays...
Died. Graham Edgar, 67, chemist and longtime (1932-52) vice president of Ethyl Corp., developer of the octane scale for measurement of the antiknock quality of motor fuels, pioneer in research that led to the production of 100-octane (high efficiency) gasoline; of leukemia; in Greenwich, Conn...