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...schools cost $567.7 million (plus $66.6 million for new construction), more than the budget of the state of Missouri. The schools employ not only 40,000 teachers but also more administrators than all of France. The system is smothered in a bureaucracy so ponderous that vital problems never reach "Livingston Street," or board headquarters, a soot-stained Brooklyn building that once housed the Elks of the region...
...city is divided into 54 local school boards, which supposedly handle local needs, but everything is still red-taped by Livingston Street. Sometimes it takes a year to get a film from the central library; highly trained teachers languish on cafeteria patrol; requests to fix sagging roofs vanish in a Byzantine fog. For years, the bureaucracy left unspent most of the millions allocated for repairs to the schools (267 of them are 50 years old or more); the backlog of needed repairs is about $75 million. Bureaucracy stifles new teaching methods, which flourish in suburban public schools. Each year...
...group, after a cursory look at the Yard, visited the Cambridge Electron Accelerator, run jointly by Harvard and M.I.T. Milton S. Livingston, CEA Director, told the newsmen about the expected projects of the Accelerator and showed them through the nearly completed underground oval and complex power station...
...first time. Building a missile or a satellite, says Boeing's Ball, "is like building a television set that will operate four hours a day for 500 years without an adjustment.'' For such a job, asserts the Harvard Business School's Pro fessor J. Sterling Livingston, "the control techniques industry has used are hopelessly inadequate." Proof of Livingston's contention is that the overwhelming majority of missile failures have been caused by faulty parts rather than faulty design...
...Hamlin (H); two-mile: Mack (Y) and Fitzgerald (H); hammer: Doten (H) and Bailey (H); broad jump: Chris Ohiri (H, and the only freshman named) and Jim Axtell (Y); pole vault: Blodgett (H) and Oukley Andrews (Y); discus: Bronstein (H) and Mike Pyle (Y); and Javelin: John Livingston (Y) and Henry Hallas...