Word: orals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oral, Written Arguments...
Skipping the traditional oral intelligence briefings that come packaged with map board, pointer and colonel attached, he demands tightly written papers that he can scan with his built-in, wide-screen-camera mind. Answers to hard questions are demanded with computer speed. The Pentagon's "action officers" now act; "project officers" project. Says a staffer: "I've never been so flattened out since law school. Among other things, he's piling on the work to find out who can produce; if you can't, you're out." And McNamara keeps a special task force...
...statistically from 75% to 90%. As Dr. Jonas E. Salk retorted: "The continued occurrence of polio is not due primarily to failure of the vaccine, but to failure to use it." But most authorities admit that for fuller protection, the U.S. needs a more potent vaccine, probably the Sabin oral type, which should be available within a year...
...dissenting tutor remarked, "If you have to have an examination, an oral is more in the concept of tutorial...
Wilkinson said that the staff hopes to receive reactions from students on the testing experiments and will presumably meet next Fall to decide whether oral or written exams are preferable. Economics 98, honors tutorial for juniors, is given in two hours of lectures a week and two hours of group sessions with a tutor...