Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spain collecting more of what an unfriendly critic once called "Bull in the Afternoon," Novelist Ernest Hemingway took time out from research on a new book to answer an invitation from the Soviet Union's Literary Gazette. Would Papa come to Russia with Ike? "Why should I go to Russia while there is bullfighting in Spain?" If the Soviets would also invite Matador Antonio Ordonez (brilliant torero son of the bullfighter portrayed in The Sun Also Rises), Hemingway said he might reconsider...
Last week the other 88% found a sorely needed traffic cop: the new American College Testing Program, brainchild of President E. F. Lindquist of the Measurement Research Center at the State University of Iowa. Using Lindquist's whizbang $1,000,000 scoring machines (6,000 answer sheets an hour), ACT is aimed at Midwestern colleges that have finally started using entrance exams and want to maintain uniform standards...
...aircraft industry is under fire from all sides. British editorialists charge that companies are too conservative to press far-out research, too slow to push mergers that would give them greater resources to develop new products. The unions are also up in arms. Last week the British Association of Supervisory Staffs, Executives and Technicians issued a broadside that likened planes shown at Farnborough to "dashing debutantes at the Queen Charlotte Ball: one appearance in lights and white, followed by oblivion." The association blamed the industry's decline on "unparalleled government muddle, management inefficiency, and a seemingly complete disregard...
...back to high school and college last week, there was a new look: the neatnik had replaced the beatnik. Out were dungarees, sloppy slacks, baggy sweaters, etc. Reflecting the back-to-school buying surge, department-store sales across the nation rose 20% over a year ago. Said Teen-Age Research Expert Eugene Gilbert: "There is a general upturn in the appearance of both boys and girls from the lower middle class on up." Gimbel's department store pitched its ads to "the neat generation." Chicago-area stores reported that their best sales to teen-age girls came in conservative...
...apparent, if not explicit--this excitement is not always sustained. Freshmen find themselves suddenly thrust into huge lecture-courses, and (once again in Bundy's words) "the meaning of the course is somehow lost in the taking of it...The Faculty is an exciting faculty, but it is often research-minded. The need, then, is to connect freshman excitement with faculty excitement...