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When the school's boyish-looking director, Dr. Gordon McAndrew, 38, a University of California Ph.D. who had headed a $2,000,000 project for the slum kids of Oakland's public schools, first heard of the North Carolina plan, he scoffed: "Anybody who'd get involved in that must be crazy as hell." But he did. Now he calls it "the most exciting experiment in education in America today." The thrill, he explains, comes in plucking the slipping student out of his failure-filled environment at the eighth-grade level-"about the last point of intervention...
Teachers Who Explain. Some of the boys dropped out, one because he missed his hunting dog. Of the 140 who stayed, only ten showed little or no improvement in their 3-R skills. The progress of 55 boys was classed as "extremely positive." McAndrew reports that "the vast majority" grew in "poise and responsiveness." A retiring 14-year-old with a thumb-sucking habit turned into a conversational leader. Wrote one mother about her son: "It seems hardly possible how much he has matured. He has found himself." Says Student Dewey Long: "The teachers here explain a subject so that...
Before this year's presidential campaign is over, NBC, CBS and ABC will have spent $25 million on news coverage-triple their 1960 expenditure. Justification is the cash value of prestige. "It's an intangible," says NBC Executive Vice President William McAndrew, "but sales people say that our news image definitely makes sales for the whole network schedule...
...highly colored view of the U.S.'s stand and Lodge's speech. NBC promptly pulled Mueller off the U.N. assignment and sent him back to his regular beat as radio newscaster. The network denied having yielded to pressure: the decision to move Mueller, said William R. McAndrew, vice president in charge of news, had been made "hours before he got on the air." Assessing the whole flap. New York Times TV Critic Jack Gould made a key point: "After seeing Mr. Gromyko assail the U.S. and Mr. Lodge rise to its defense, some viewers probably were not prepared...
While the wine was chilling at the beginning of the evening, a forum was held on the collecting of art. Leonard Baskin, Wellesley art historian John McAndrew, and John Nicholas Brown '22, introduced as a yachtsman and collector, were the scheduled speakers. Dwight MacDonald, replacing ailing Paul J. Sachs, professor of Fine Arts, emeritus, completed the panel...