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...Metal Insert. The answer to the librarians' plight may lie in an electronic device demonstrated last week in Flint, Mich. Playing the part of a thief, a Flint librarian slipped a library book under his coat, then walked boldly to the exit. There was a loud click as the turnstile locked, then a buzzing noise as the librarian was alerted. Even as the "thief" sheepishly explained that he "forgot" to sign out his book, a patron whose book had been properly checked out strode easily through the same turnstile...
Last week in Flint, Mich., General Motors Institute, an accredited five-year engineering school, announced a long-range expansion program that will get started with a new men's dorm and a combination student union- conference hall for G.M.I.'s fulltime faculty of 200 and 2,400 rigorously chosen undergraduates. In G.M.'s plan, students work their way through college by alternating six weeks in class with six weeks in a plant. Similarly, the Bell System offers a four-week work-study cycle and contracts with six leading engineering schools to give courses for the company...
PETER J. SCHON Flint, Mich...
...galas, at some $300,000 a throw. Ford once unwrapped not only its new line but a lissome young lady who pranced around in little but her chassis. Another time, Ford distributed Fairlane fenders as gifts. General Motors' Buick Division once tore up the lobby floor at Flint's Durant Hotel and installed a trout stream for newsmen...
...years ago, somebody asked Mott how much he was worth. "Doesn't matter," he said. "What matters is what a man does with his worth." The people of Flint know what that means...