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Psychedevotional at Ohm. Op art has conditioned gallerygoers to accept art that visually leaps from the wall to assault the optic jugular. Much luminal art is similarly turned on. The USCO group of Garnerville, N.Y., can induce the hallucinatory traumas that occur in some LSD trips by means of blinding strobe lights-the visual equivalent of the electronic scream at the end of the Beatles' record Penny Lane...
Another effective technique in military schools is to go from the concrete to the abstract, rather than putting theory ahead of practice, as most civilian schools do. Today's radio technician, for example, learns to spot a malfunction before he learns Ohm's law. Trainees are also allowed to progress at their own pace, often working alone with programmed textbooks. Where classroom teaching is used, service schools keep the student-teacher ratio low, take full advantage of military discipline and of the sense of immediacy that training for war gives...
...inveterate fisherman, he contrived a one-man kickless harpoon gun to spear whales; a window-shopper, he invented a one-piece display lamp and reflector for shopkeepers, then founded a successful electric company to produce the unit, though he admittedly did not know the difference between an ohm and a kilowatt. He even found time to write a book on wildflowers...
...greatest achievements of Kepler and Darwin, Ohm and Marie Curie fall within or near Dr. Lehman's age ranges. But Galileo was a partial exception: he seems to have done as well...
Died. Emil Jannings, 62, hulking Swiss-born German cinemactor who won Hollywood's first "Oscar" (The Way of All Flesh, 1928); of cancer; at his lakeside home in Austria. Forsaking the U.S. when talkies exposed his accent in 1929, Jannings made Nazi propaganda (Ohm Kriiger), but was denazified...