Word: hamilton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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's math homework in four hours and 20 minutes. In Roanoke, Va., last year, 34 eighth-graders finished a one-year algebra course in six months, working 50 minutes...
...other action, Mrs. Wheeler spoke in favor of an authorization of $7,000 to defray part of the cost of a study of the city hospital system. "Improvements have been needed for a long time," she said, "but it is hard to know how to get started." Hamilton Associates of Minneapolis, hospital consultants, will conduct the study...
...from natural calamities but from a mismanaged attempt to speed industrialization by releasing manpower from farm communes. But the Canadian negotiators got no clue from Traders Liu and Yang on how serious Red China's food shortage may be. "They were very sensitive about the word famine," said Hamilton, "so we didn't talk about...
...with the report that the ex-Harvard football player would become an assistant district attorney of Massachusetts' Suffolk County. A couple of crafty, mach 2 base runners stole their way into the already plaque-packed Baseball Hall of Fame. This year's unanimous choices: William ("Sliding Billy") Hamilton and Max ("Scoop") Carey (originally Max Carnarius). Hamil ton, a hard-hitting igth century National Leaguer who set the alltime league record for stolen bases with 797 in an era when the catcher stood far behind the plate, died in 1940. Carey, like Hamilton an out fielder, ran rampant with...
...begun its fourth season with The Skin of Our Teeth, which will soon leave on a State Department tour of Europe, with Helen Hayes, Leif Erickson, June Havoc and Helen Menken. With Artist-Showman Salvador Dali. Bandleader Sammy Kaye, Mime Marcel Marceau, Actor-Singer Russell Nype. Hollywood Profile George Hamilton and Actress Susan Kohner also in town for highly varied reasons, there was more than ample fuel for the increasing celebrity-consciousness of Palm Beach's younger generation...