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Last week the Ford Foundation gave Franklin $1,000,000 to spur a wealth of new projects, notably the creation of a one-volume encyclopedia, slated for translation into five languages. The work is slow, since each version has to add local lore about flora, history and religion. But the promise is big, since few of the countries have any kind of reference books. With its new Ford money, Franklin is also thinking about untapped markets from Spanish-speaking Latin America to French-speaking West Africa. Soon due for Africa: a first edition of Ferdinand the Bull in Ewe, Fanti...
Fringe Benefits. Moreover, teachers are used more efficiently. Columbia's A.C. Flora High School, for example, is doing away with separate plane geometry sections, now groups 230 students in one large classroom with half a dozen TV sets suspended from the ceiling. Supervised by one teacher and two assistants, the students typically watch the TV lesson for 30 minutes, then spend 15 minutes discussing it. One result: the bottom two-thirds of this year's students recently tested higher than the median of last year's separate classes. Even more impressive, the statewide median scores...
While the AEC and the military are claiming their blocks of information, a ship manned by scientists from the University of Washington is gathering fish, plankton and other oceanic fauna and flora to check for radiation effects. Specimens will be sent to Seattle for further study. A team from the U.S. Public Health Service is standing by to treat and study any unfortunate humans who tangle with test radiation...
...FLORA HOUSE FAIRCHILD Darien, Conn...
...estimate of $200,000. The institute also bought Frans Hals's Man with a Herring for $145,000, more than three times as much as the Ericksons paid for it in 1925. Wildenstein bid a surprising $175,000 for Jean MarcNattier's La Marquise de Baglion, as Flora -an indication that things will be looking up for the Nattier market after the long decline from the $240,000 the Ericksons paid for the Marquise...