Word: mathe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chairman Earle Gilmore Wheeler, 57, is a handsome, strapping West Pointer who, with the exception of five months in a World War II combat area, has served his entire Army career at desk jobs far removed from battlefields. A onetime math instructor at the academy, Wheeler still doodles with algebraic equations during J.C.S. sessions. As director of the Joint Chiefs' staff, he was assigned in 1960 to brief Presidential Candidate John Kennedy on military developments; his performance led to his appointment by Kennedy as Army Chief of Staff in 1962. In that job, he won McNamara's favor...
...shinbone (see diagram), was torn and rolled back in a tight wad. This explained why Namath had not been able to straighten his leg completely: just as a folded newspaper stuck between a door and its jamb will keep the door ajar, so the ball of cartilage kept Na-math's knee hinge from swinging all the way as he tried to extend his leg. The X rays showed no other damage-only a small cyst, of no importance...
Regarding less marginal non-science majors, suffice it to say that not a single non-science major at Harvard whose grades in science were on a C level, with evidence that he could do quantitative work on the level of Math 1 and Physics 1, failed to be offered a place in medical school last year...
Even an old-math mind can roughly multiply millions of teen-agers by the factor of better-trained intelligence and surmise that the next generations of Americans will look a lot smarter than the past. It will have to; a recent N.E.A. publication notes that "the first doubling of knowledge occurred in 1750, the second in 1900, the third in 1950, and the fourth only ten years later." The fifth and sixth, if the plot line holds its course, are close at hand. Teen-agers today do not think of themselves as "knights in shining chinos" riding forth on rockets...
...math now reaches about 70% of the students in Grades 7 through 12. This year nearly half the high school students studying physics are learning by discovery; one-third of the chemistry students and one-fourth of the biology students are taking completely revamped courses. Along with the curriculum changes came a new technology -programmed instruction, audio-visual equipment, classroom television, computers-which freed schools from the idea that one teacher standing before a class of 30 children was the ideal form of instruction...