Word: crowder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yusef Crowder. a UMass freshman, is the main drummer for the group. Accompanied by two of his drum students. he plays twice a week-Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. and Thursday...
...idea of a conscription lottery is far from new. The U.S. used it in July 1917 to pluck 687,000 draftees from 10 million registrants between the ages of 21 and 31. Conceived by Army Provost Marshal General Enoch H. Crowder, the drawing was made in Washington from 10,500 numbered slips of paper (10,500 was the largest number of registrants signed up with any single local board). The first number pulled from the fishbowl was 258, and every registrant with that number was called. In all, 1,374,000 men took physical exams; 70% passed and then...
...friend after another all the time-nibbling detail work. A grammar school chum named Marty Agins has charge of the Westbury, Long Island, store. Joe Zwillenberg became company treasurer. Another executive job went to Abe Goldstein, a fellow Brooklynite whom Ferkauf met on K.P. duty at Camp Crowder, Mo. Recalls Ferkauf: "I was washing dishes, and Abe came over to me and said, 'Move over, I'll help you.' I've just gotten around to rewarding him. I've made him manager of the Fifth Avenue store." This crowd Ferkauf affectionately calls "The Boys." When...
...There are three leading models of machines. Simplest is Grolier-Teaching Machines Inc.'s Min/ Max ($20): the student slides pieces of paper through it with a pencil eraser. Rheem Califone's Didak 501 ($157.50) follows Skinner's original design, with the programing on paper tape. Crowder designed Western Design's new AutoTutor Mark II ($1,250), a highly sophisticated branching device with up to 5,000 frames of microfilm. Eastman Kodak is well launched on a microfilm device, capable of handling different programs, that would sell to public schools for about...
Programs remain the key problem: machines are useless without them. Tested programs of full-year courses cost as much as $75,000 to produce, and they are still scarce. Apart from Crowder's branching school, the leading program makers include Albuquerque's Teaching Machines Inc. (the programing affiliate of Grolier); Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, which is programing an entire high school curriculum; Manhattan's Basic Systems Inc., which is testing programs for underdeveloped countries; and Manhattan's Carnegie-and Ford-financed Center for Programed Instruction, which grew out of the project at Collegiate School...