Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...captain. He earned his master's degree at the University of Michigan in 1941, then spent ten years in Bolivia, Costa Rica and Panama as a U.S. Information Service officer and coordinator of U.S. aid projects. In 1961, Shriver grabbed him. Says Vaughn: "The Peace Corps idea had great appeal to me, and the people I knew who were putting this idea into effect appealed to me even more...
...history has ever assumed such responsibility as now rests on Indira Gandhi. In fact, only one other woman in modern times has ever headed a national government. She is Ceylon's Madame Sirima Bandaranaike, who was elected the year after her Prime Minister husband was assassinated. Yet the idea of a woman Prime Minister strikes outsiders as more curious than it does most Indians...
...Bits. All of this is organized according to the learning theories of Harvard Behavioral Psychologist Burrhus Frederic Skinner (TIME, March 24, 1961). Skinner taught pigeons to play pingpong by breaking the action into tiny steps, immediately rewarding each correct step with a grain of corn. This led to the idea of giving children knowledge in atomized "bits," and testing each bit immediately by an easy leading question. When the student responds with the right answer, he gets a glow of pleasure-his grain of corn. The technique requires some mechanical device (often a teaching machine) to hide the printed answer...
...British that his company would make partial payment for the jets in the form of surplus Lebanese apples; this would work out very nicely for the sheik, who is himself one of Lebanon's biggest apple-growers. The British, however, did not like them apples. Another idea-forming a British Aircraft Corp. subsidiary that would lease the planes to the Lebanese-was dashed last week when the British government revoked the kind of tax allowances that would make the subsidiary profitable...
...place of an assassinated Premier; the West must have a popular Yoruba and the East a popular Ibo Premier; in the Midwest a balance of power among several tribes must the kept. Each region, each major tribe must be given a sufficient stake in the Federation to make the idea of secession unthinkable...