Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...study of language-learning aptitudes was begun in September, 1953, with an original Carnegie grant of $30,000. Professor Carroll, director of the project, said that the latest grant will extend the study to elementary schools. Only high schools and college students have been tested...
...hope that results from this project will make for more efficient placement of language students by the military, colleges, and high schools, and will lead to more efficient teaching methods," Carroll said...
Even a few commercial TV executives support the project. They cannot often present challenging programs themselves because advertisers demand that programs play to the mythical "mass market." Only educational television, which operates without advertising and uses unpaid talent, can afford to sacrifice some of its viewers by trying to make them think...
...real thing. There is much merit in letting the country view and hear such White House sessions. This could be a device through which a lot of ordinary people might gain deeper intimacy with the business of government. But under the censorship rules the show is a GOP propaganda project rather than a recording of history...
...having quite a lot of trouble now with his own boys (TIME, Jan. 3). I don't think anybody likes him very much. Since Stalin's death we have seen him going back toward Moscow." Returning to Rio de Janeiro after inaugurating a big power project, Brazil's witty President Café Filho (TIME, Dec. 6) stopped off for a look at a cocoa plantation and suddenly found himself hotfooting it across a field just a few horn's-breadths ahead of a bull that had escaped from a pen. No matador, Café Filho, with...