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...understanding" of its problems and of having advocated the very policies he criticized. Obviously, Moses and the bankers who differed with him saw the fair through different lenses-but then the World's Fair Corp. is an unorthodox corporation. Formed in 1959 by five New Yorkers as a nonprofit corporation, it runs the first fair in history that aims to earn a surplus on its investment; most of the others have lost money...
That is hardly the half of it-at least according to a survey of 1,501 people done for the council, a nonprofit institution (board chairman: John J. McCloy), by the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center...
...nonprofit organization devoted since 1964 to "improving the character, appearance and functioning of American cities," the association early recognized Forum as an important ally in its cause. Its ambition to revive the magazine was cordially approved by Time Inc., which bestowed the publishing rights as a gift. Forum's future will be in experienced hands: ten members of the old staff, headed by General Manager Lawrence W Mester and Managing Editor Peter Blake...
...developed by the nonprofit Educational Research Corporation of Cambridge, relies on the programmed profiles of 2,850 schools that are stored in IBM machines. A-student marks his preferences (location, size, competitive standing, desired subjects) on a four-page booklet; the information is fed into the computer and out clatter the printed names of schools that match his demands. Average "print-out": between 20 and 30 colleges...
Peculiar Property. Manufacturing questions that are subtly discriminating is the touchy job of the nonprofit Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J. Founded in 1947, mammoth E.T.S. now branches out from its 340 rural acres to affect the lives of students across the U.S. Last year more than 4,000,000 people took more than 7,000,000 of its tests. Among them: the fearsome College Entrance Board's, Graduate Record Exams, and specialized brain twisters for prospective lawyers, doctors, businessmen, teachers, Peace Corps volunteers, architects, insurance underwriters. This month E.T.S. starts a new program, a pilot project for first...