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...view of the imaginative school authorities at Greeley, Colo., conventional schoolhouses are square. So Greeley, in what is perhaps the most recent radical transformation of a school district's plant, has built four new schoolhouses that are circular or hexagonal. Moreover, they have no windows, and one of them has carpets on all the floors. "We know that a good teacher and a good blackboard are the fundamentals of teaching," says Leslie K. Grimes, school superintendent in Greeley. "But we also think that the good teacher can do better in a comfortable, air-conditioned room without noise and glare...
Gauge to Watch. Though rising wages and prices are two obvious heralds of inflation, economists also keep a close watch on plant capacity-the extent to which industry uses its facilities to turn out the goods it needs to meet demand. Reason: any strong and widespread increase in the use of capacity indicates that demand is pressing existing facilities, thus increasing pressures for price hikes. Rising demand has gradually alleviated the painful hangover of idle facilities that followed the plant-building binge of the mid-'50s, but U.S. industry in general is still not being strained to its limits...
Good Insurance. Pressure on factory capacity is also strongly reflected in the estimated gain of 13% (to $44.2 billion) in spending for new plant and equipment this year, even though much of this goes into modernization rather than straight-out additions to capacity. Papermakers have boosted capital investment by 30% above last year's level, and the chemical industry, despite excess capacity, has massive expansion underway to provide the new production lines required by new products. All this building helps to lessen the pressures on capacity and, because of the cost-cutting automation that goes with it these days...
...middle of June, the University joined a campaign against a proposed Commonwealth Edison plant to be built in upper New York state. If Con Ed goes through with its plans to build the hydro-electric power project in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, the University will lose slightly more than 200 acres of its Black Rock Forest...
...University's chances of blocking the construction of the project dropped sharply when a Federal Power Commission examiner approved Con Ed's plans for the Hudson River plant on July 31. While the five-man Commission will undoubtedly review the examiner's findings this fall, it is unlikely the group will reverse the ruling. Once a utility obtains a federal license for a hydroelectric project, it can take private property by right of eminent domain...