Word: math
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they're over 700, then the SATs are pretty important for a candidate; they're probably his primary asset, though as Reardon says, only about 10 per cent are admitted as a straight "scholar group." The median SAT scores for the last class was 674 verbal and 713 math. For scores below that, however, a candidate must have something else going for him--maybe he's a musician, or an athlete or has a "one" personality...
...Apollo's Annapolis-trained commander, is an Air Force brigadier general, a coolly gifted pilot and co-author of two basic manuals on test flying. Stafford has logged 290 hr. 15 min. in space, dating back to ins first Gemini flight in 1965 with Wally Scinrra. In orbit, Math Winz Stafford liked to amuse inmself by using pad and pencil to race mission control's computers in solving maneuvering problems; sometimes he won. Stafford was born in Weatherford, Okla., and he and ins wife Faye have two daughters. Though often nettled by Soviet secrecy during preparations for tins...
...Orlando), Fla., 250 teachers have been laid off, and school officials say that as a result, some classes may hold as many as 45 pupils. Many other school systems are eliminating special programs and firing nonteaching employees to save teachers' jobs. Schools in Springfield, Mass., have canceled special math and music classes and crew, but still may have to lay off 57 teachers and supervisors. Springfield Superintendent John Deady notes that although $700,000 was cut from the regular school budget, the schools have had to increase spending on state-required courses for minority and handicapped students. Says Deady...
More dissatisfaction with quantitative history is found among undergraduates than among threatened historians. Supposedly so well trained at least on an elementary level by SMSG and the new math, many of the most able students at Harvard fear or hate thinking with numbers so much that they cannot evaluate some of the most important works of our time. Part of the problem may be that, at this school, anything mathematical smacks too much of the dreaded pre-med courses. Worse, "thoughtful" courses in the social sciences often cover the feeblest exclusively verbal epigones of Mars but not far more important...
Died. Joseph Dunninger, 82, magician and mentalist; of Parkinson's disease; in Cliffside Park, N.J. Dunninger's first intimations of telepathic power came, he said, when he realized he could read grade-school classmates' minds and find solutions to math problems. Dunninger began as a magician (among his tricks: making an elephant disappear, sawing a woman in eighths), later perfected the mind-reading act that made him famous. Among the brains Dunninger picked were those of six Presidents and such luminaries as Thomas Edison and Pope Pius XII, who temporarily baffled him by thinking in Latin. Like...