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...Human Resources Research Office of George Washington University had some good news for backers of educational TV. Most important findings of the test: 1) normal instruction time in one electronics course was cut in half when the course was presented on TV with visual gimmicks, e.g., closeups, cutaway models; 2) TV students remembered what they had learned as well as and often better than, students taught by regular classroom instructors; and 3) men with low I.Q.s benefited most, did far better on examinations than their counterparts in regular classes...
...dance floor installed in the Alabama Cattle Coliseum for his inaugural ball. Lazily, he waved to the crowd, called out his campaign catch phrase: "Hitch up them mules, boy, it ain't a goin' to rain." Speaking at the stately white capitol, he pawed absently at his cutaway, as though feeling for pockets. When the crowd roared, he drawled: "I forgot it was one of those longtail jobs. Just every four years is all I'm used to wearing it." South Carolina. With no parade, ball or fanfare, George Bell Timmerman Jr., 42, was sworn...
...enemies (exception: Joe McCarthy and Arthur Watkins, at their adjacent desks, leaned away from each other almost to the point of toppling off their chairs). But missing, since the death last year of North Carolina's courtly Senator Clyde Hoey, were those traditional stylemarks of senatorial dignity, the cutaway coat and the wing collar. This year's fashions tended toward red neckties, as worn, in descending order of brilliance, by Walter George, Montana's Democratic Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Tennessee's Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver, and South Carolina's Democratic Senator Strom Thurmond...
Among the worshipers at Ise, in striped trousers and cutaway, was Japan's new Premier Ichiro Hatoyama, full of the knowledge that his nationalist pronouncements had done much to stimulate Japan's search for its old look. Hatoyama is the first Prime Minister to make the pilgrimage since the Japanese surrender; he did so in defiance of Article 20 of the MacArthur constitution, which lays down that "the state and its organs shall refrain from . . . religious activity." And although Hatoyama himself is a Christian, fond of caroling hymns like The Old Rugged Cross, he solemnly reported his appointment...
...cutaway and the top hat that his wife carefully brushed for him, Japan's new Premier Hatoyama called last week upon the symbol of his country's ancient traditions, the Emperor. Later, in a grey worsted suit, dabbing nervously at his mouth with a handkerchief, Ichiro Hatoyama paid his respects to Japan's new democratic practices. "Good morning everybody," said conservative Hatoyama, making his radio debut on a man-in-the-street interview hookup. "If you have any questions, please...