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...three prominent scientists: John Rock '15, Clinical Professor of Gynecology, Emeritus and a pioneer in birth control (LL.D.); John H. Van Vleck, former dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics and a forerunner in discoveries in quantum theory, who received a Doctor of Science; and chemist Manfred Eigen, division director at Max Planck Institute for Physical Chemistry at Goettingen, Germany, a pioneer in perfecting techniques to measure chemical reactions to a minute fraction of a second, who also received a Doctor of Science...
...tiny steps really lead anywhere? A clue comes from comparing the first simple frames of a typical program with later ones. Here is frame No. 3 of Mathematician Lewis D. Eigen's Sets, Relations, and Functions, recently published for junior high schools by New York's nonprofit Center for Programed Instruction...
...means that (7) is a - of (1,3,5,7,9). Algebra Speedup. Theintervening 85 frames obviously carried the student a long way. Eigen and Teacher P. Kenneth Komoski did some pioneer math programing at Manhattan's Collegiate School, one of the oldest U.S. boys' schools, and in one case 74 students completed in two weeks a highly abstract algebra course that used to take more than two months. A programed course in logic at Hamilton College cut class time by one-third. At Columbia University, one student wrote a perfect.final exam after doing one term...
Better Be Good. It turns out music, medical books, Bibles, hymnals, Britain's Dictionary of National Biography, Fowler's Modern English Usage, children's stories, books on Geodesy and Eigen junction Expansions, and such bestsellers as Toynbee's Study of History and Jim Corbett's Man-Eaters of Kumaon...
...DIMENSIONS. Actually, the list of names she mentioned in court was a scattershot blast, as newsmen got it. They were unable to tell which were "clients" and which were mere "acquaintances" of Pat's. Such names as Screen Stars Mickey Rooney and George Raft, Disk Jockey Jack Eigen and Sportwriter Bill Stern were splashed across papers indiscriminately. Some of those mentioned denied that they had ever met her, while others like Mickey Rooney pointed out: "I met her five years ago at a party. What's wrong with that?" Of the entire list, only Manhattanite Max Ausnit, former...