Word: programed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Happy at McCall's, scholarly-looking Herb Mayes works 65 hours a week including Sundays, dashes up and down the halls, teases attractive young lady staffers ("Salute me,baby!"). He has multiplied the number of products in McCall's "Use-Tested" program, is installing a beauty clinic and textile and chemical labs, plans to test food products, toilet goods and cosmetics in an attempt to catch up with Good Housekeeping's seal of approval testing program. Indeed, Herb Mayes's plans for McCall's have few limits: he predicts he will overtake the Ladies...
Gripping the table to control his Irish temper, Jim Hagerty replied with unexpected docility that he "would expect" the forthcoming television chat of Eisenhower and Macmillan to include a report on the issues. When the program produced mostly generalizations,, newsmen looking for amplification found that Hagerty and the British spokesmen were "unavailable...
Even if the school has only one or two "highly gifted" students (the top 3% nationally), they should have college work under the Advanced Placement Program to enter college ahead of the game, and there take tougher courses. And the "academically talented" should never get a chance to loaf. As college material, they should take a minimum 18 courses with homework (at least 15 hours weekly), including four years of English, four years of math, three years of science, four years of one foreign language (for "mastery") -plus required courses...
...board's green light for scores of reforms and experiments that promise to make the new year one of the richest in history. Items: CJ In Philadelphia, high schools will give superior seniors five major subjects instead of four. In Richmond, high schools will begin a five-year program of 23 courses. In the Peekskill (N.Y.) High School, a Conant-inspired inventory should become the best persuader yet for top students not trying for college (36% of the brightest girls. 28% of the boys). Pasadena, Calif, has started summer schools for students who wish to accelerate (a Conant recommendation...
Almost every dollar the U.S. commits to missiles is squeezed out of some plane program. All told, the U.S. will order only 1,500 planes this year compared with 1,760 last year. Next year the cuts will be bigger. Of the fabled Century series of supersonic fighters, the fiscal 1960 budget allocates not a penny for North American's F-100 Super Sabre, McDonnell's F101 Voodoo, Convair's F-102, Lockheed's 1,400-m.p.h. F-104 Starfighter or Convair's F-106. Only one tactical plane is funded in the new budget...