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...overcrowding and the poor school conditions compared to those in the excellent schools in Maryland and Virginia, have been the major causes of the whites' desire to have their children in suburban schools. The number of Negroes in District public schools, however, is unquestionably a factor, and that number is growing every year. In 1955, the year after the city's schools were integrated, 58,936 Negroes were going to school with 44,897 whites. Since that time Negro enrollment has almost doubled to 112,000, more than 85 per cent of the total, while white enrollment has halved...
...third-dimension departure on the sociometric circuit this winter is going to be the Inverse Insecurity Factor and its effect, if any, on the potato syllogism. For this undoubted fillip to martini talk, Americans will owe a limited debt of gratitude to the pseudonymous Mark Epernay, of Bogota, N.J., whose straightforward guide to the heady behavioral theories of Dr. Herschel McLandress seems destined to give the Bostonian psychometricist the popular acceptance accorded Kinsey and Havelock Ellis...
Sonic Support. One of the psycho-metricist's more profound discoveries is that whenever a U.S. President has attempted to reassure businessmen about the state of the economy, he has succeeded only in impairing business confidence. To counter this "Inverse Insecurity Factor," as he calls it, McLandress devised the subliminal Sonic Support Apparatus Mark II, a miniaturized tape recorder designed to reassure the businessman by playing back the speeches of some hero figure to whom he turns mentally for inspiration in moments of insecurity. Among other "Sustaining Presences," the doctor found that Barry Goldwater, the Hoovers (J. Edgar...
...miles from the nearest large city, El Paso, and thus relatively free from television and radio broadcasts which might blot out solar signals. Although some man-made radiation does reach Cook Flat, the hills which rise 1500 feet above the valley's floor reduce this interference by a factor of over 100. Eight miles from Cook Flat is the town of Fort Davis (population 600), where the Harvard station has set up offices and dark-rooms for developing film records...
...other contributing factor was the publication of Shelton's novels, Brood of Fury and Hangman's Song, which had aroused external criticism from what the president called "our constituency...