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...fail to do, that our Negroes are much better off competing among themselves and with teachers of their own race who understand their problems. Studies of recently desegregated schools, notably in Washington, D.C., have proved that while there is no racial difference in intelligence, there is a definite cultural lag and wide variance in home environment that place the Negro children several grades lower than the white child of the same age. Putting these two groups together would not be of psychological benefit to either group...
Zigzag in Space. While a trip to the moon is a "possibility" in the near future because the rocket can be radio-controlled from earth, a voyage to Mars. 1,600 times as far away, would be another matter. The time lag in sending and receiving radio signals would make advice from home out of date; yet navigation would have to be even more exacting and constant than during a trip to the moon. There is no known way that its crew can determine the direction and actual speed of a rocketship traveling in space. Speed cannot be changed without...
...lag in commercial use of helicopters is due largely to the lack of a clear policy on the part of the U.S. Government and the airlines. Both the Post Office Department and the Civil Aeronautics Board are anxious to encourage helicopters, and both have been experimenting for years. But the program is sporadic and small-scale. Now the Government must decide whether to push ahead rapidly or let helicopters limp along without help...
...Some state compensation laws make a company responsible for a worker's total disability, regardless of his previous injury. However, 42 states now have "second injury" funds which protect employers against paying total disability compensation for injuries to an already handicapped worker. But the biggest reason for the lag is that businessmen simply do not think that the handicapped are good workers. Actually, a handicapped worker in the right job does just as well as his able-bodied neighbor. Says the National Association of Manufacturers, in its Guide in Hiring the Physically Handicapped: "In the past decade, production records...
...thousands of different wells. The industry is so closely bound up with oil that gas exploration, drilling, and production costs are inextricably mixed together. To regulate gas, FPC would also, indirectly, partially control oil prices. Moreover, costs of drilling wells are climbing so fast that even the current contracts lag behind the true expense of production...