Word: math
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last year, then Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach officially put Government spending in the cities at $14.7 billion. In the same week, Robert Weaver, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, reckoned that it actually amounted to $28.4 billion; and Lyndon Johnson, with lightning application of both old and new math, set it at $30 billion. This year, Budget Director Charles Schultze admitted to a Senate subcommittee, the Government is giving out only $10.3 billion in "federal aid payments in urban areas." Even this more down-to-earth figure is probably far too high an estimate of the amount being spent...
...Math. Not only tourists are scouting the new territories. In the past two weeks technicians from Israel's Ministry of Agriculture made an intensive survey of West Bank crops and recommended that Arab farmers switch some 15,000 acres of land now growing tomatoes, melons and watermelons to more profitable crops of cotton, tobacco, sesame and sorghum. The ministry will distribute free seeds to farmers for the fall plantings. Other experts are studying irrigation schemes for the Jordan valley. The government's Department of Antiquities will soon send teams of archaeologists fanning out through the new territories...
...M.B.A.s had been hired at an average of $11,300 a year, as compared with $10,300 in 1966. According to the College Placement Council, the average starting salary for chemical engineers, last year's highest-paid group-at $682 a month-has risen to $733. Math and physics students are getting $698, compared with $648 in 1966. Even the $589 that lowly humanities students got was a brisk increase over last year...
...LEARNING PROCESS (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).*Bob Hope turns over his usual spot to a news special on U.S. education. Correspondent Edwin Newman explores the use of games, computers and the new math in today's schools, and interviews five pioneers in advanced teaching techniques. Among them: Dr. Robert Davis, father of the new math, and Dr. Donald Bitzer, proponent of learning by computer...
...Since the administrative structure and general attitude of departments vary widely, a new audit has few precedents to rely on. And the time-consuming work involved must come from students who themselves have no stake in the HPC. As a result, only six audits have been completed (Government, Applied Math, Chemistry, English, Biology, and Classics), with varying degrees of success...