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...OVERSEAS TRAVELERS prefer planes to ships by 3-to-1 margin, says new Commerce Department report. Last year's ratio...
...crisis in science education, the report observes, "is not an invention of the newspapers, or scientists, or the Pentagon. It is a real crisis." Its cause is not Russia, but a vast acceleration of technology "beside which the industrial revolution may appear a modest alteration of human affairs." The needs: a great many scientists, well and broadly educated, and a general public familiar with the methods and objectives of science...
Justification for the enormous educational effort necessary, spelled out in the report writers' preface, is a humanistic declaration of priority: "A free society nurtures the individual not alone for the contribution he may make to the social effort, but also and primarily for the sake of the contribution he may make to his own realization and development." The authors are optimistic: "It is possible to identify a posture more constructive than handwringing . . . The truth is that never in our history have we been in a better position to commit ourselves wholeheartedly to the pursuit of excellence...
Entertainment Barred. The A.M.A.'s house of delegates last week also approved a report by its council on mental health giving a guarded endorsement of the use of hypnosis in medicine, surgery and dentistry. Because hypnosis is such easy "meat for the charlatan," the council insisted that its use should be limited to specially trained doctors and dentists, who must be careful to use it only in the area of their specialty. On the hazards of hypnosis, the council had conflicting evidence and could reach no agreement. But on one point it was dogmatic: "The use of hypnosis...
EXECUTIVE JOB OPENINGS have shown big rise in past few months, report top recruiting agencies in major cities. Companies are beginning to hire again in high brackets...