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...teen-agers are dangerous drivers, so are their grandparents. And the remedy may well be the same for both: education. So thinks Bernard I. Loft, 49, associate professor of health and safety at Indiana University, who last week wound up a pilot project in geriatric driver training that may go a long way toward proving his point...
Back to School. High school courses in driving and traffic have been a solid success, argues Loft: boys and girls who have taken them are involved in 50% fewer violations and accidents than those who have not. "With teen-agers," he says, "the biggest problem is attitude, lack of maturity and judgment, not skill. But with senior citizens, maturity, judgment and attitude for the most part are extremely good. They need help in developing confidence, and they have to be taught their weaknesses and how to compensate for them...
Last month Loft began a training program for 14 women and five men between the ages of 56 and 75 who volunteered in response to a newspaper story. Each trainee received two 45 minute periods of driving instruction per week with a graduate student in Professor Loft's department, as well as a two-hour classroom session. The first classroom session was devoted to tests of visual acuity, including distance judgment, reaction time, ability to distinguish colors, see in the dark and recover from headlight glare. The remaining classroom sessions included handling the buttons and levers, everyday driving maneuvers...
...Gelber's first novel seemingly starts off to make that same scene. Marijuana smoke curls up from the pages; the characters are mostly Greenwich Village idiots. But though the chief idiot, Manny Fells, has lowered himself by his own bootstraps into the right kind of roach-ridden Manhattan loft studio, he is neither junkie nor jazzman but a 26-year-old adolescent with tired blood. Hunger, and doubtless boredom, drives him to nothing more desperate than a temporary Christmastime job with a schlock detective agency. The agency lends him a car, car and cash attract a girl friend...
...best centers for Hispanic studies, another nun, expert in Spanish, has just been offered a job as a teaching fellow. In New York, sisters attending Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart avidly study the sometimes shocking works of Samuel Beckett, and other nuns press curiously into a Second Avenue loft to take in the blasphemous black mass of Jean Genet's The Blacks...