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...chief designer of those tests, Harvard-trained Psychologist John C. Flanagan, is now professor of psychology at the University of Pittsburgh and one of the nation's top testmakers, e.g., his nonprofit American Institute for Research tests prospective pilots for U.S. and foreign airlines. Experience has persuaded him that thousands of Americans are miscast in wrong careers, and so he is busy with a far-reaching cure: Project TALENT, "the first scientifically planned national inventory of human talents...
Einstein in Arabic. Franklin, fittingly named for Ben, set out in 1952 to be "the ambassador of American publishing"−nonprofit broker for countries hungry for U.S. books. It is headed by Datus C. Smith Jr., former director of the Princeton University Press, and governed by a board of directors that includes top U.S. publishers, librarians, industrialists and university presidents...
...recent years, the U.S. has slowly gotten around to helping with the housing of what the politicians like to call "our senior citizens." In 1956 Congress passed a law making public housing funds available to housing projects for the elderly. Subsequent laws and amendments authorized direct loans for private, nonprofit housing of old people-sponsored by church groups, labor unions, individuals, etc.-at extremely liberal rates (interest as low as 3⅛% on mortgages running as long as 50 years). There is also an FHA mortgage insurance program to be applied to old-age housing, under which a nonprofit organization...
...unlike Sun City, it is nonprofit and consists entirely of apartments. Furthermore, medical consultation is provided as part of the package (but no hospitalization or drugs), and its pastel-colored, concrete-block buildings are designed for a lower-income-level oldster (apartments start at $70.50). Senior Citizens began moving into the Fresno village last December, and today more than three-quarters of the 557 units are occupied. The second of what is planned as a chain of such villages is under construction-the Portals Senior Citizens Village, some 100 miles north of Los Angeles...
...Patients fared best in nonprofit hospitals where medical and surgical services are supervised by medical school faculties (which includes most of the city's largest hospitals); in hospitals run for profit, the care was good or excellent for only 39% and poor...