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...SELECT was developed by two undergraduates at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bernard Klein and Ray Kurzweil. Klein had gained business experience in summer jobs at Sonar Radio Corp. Kurzweil had been working with computers since his junior high school days (at 14, he built and programmed a computer that wrote music). Both men agreed fervently that the process of college selection is a harsh trial of patience and endurance for most students. Together they raised $1,300 to lease computer time and to pay 20 Harvard students for assembling and collating information on the nation's 3,000 institutions...
...were being treated like so many IBM punch cards. Now prospective undergraduates are eagerly paying $15 to get just that sort of attention. By having information about themselves put on punch cards, they are getting valuable help in choosing the right college. In a fast-growing computerized program called SELECT, a computer digests the answers to a four-part 283-item questionnaire in a matter of seconds and compares the answers with its store of information about colleges. It then prints out letters to the students and their high school guidance counselors, listing ten to 15 colleges that most nearly...
...editors of a fledgling newsmagazine called TIME were hard put to select an individual who so dominated the week's stories that he deserved a place on the magazine's cover. "Forget the man of the week," someone finally suggested. "Let's select a Man of the Year." That choice was easy. Charles A. Lindbergh, first man to fly solo across the Atlantic, was clearly the hero of 1927. Thus, almost by accident, Lindbergh became TIME'S first Man of the Year...
...high-grade pine to construct the inaugural-parade reviewing stand. With far less noise and motion, the man who will take the salute on Jan. 20 was also building, and also using first-rate materials. President-elect Richard Nixon, having picked most of his administrative staff, began to select policymakers...
...conclusion of the experiment each child was asked to evaluate the behavior of Rocky and Johnny and to select the character he preferred to emulate. These data yielded some interesting and surprising findings. As might be expected, children who observed Rocky's aggressive behavior punished both failed to reproduce his behavior and rejected him as a model for emulation. On the other hand, when Rocky's aggression was highly successful in amassing rewarding resources, he was chosen by most of the children as the preferred model for imitation. The surprising finding, however, is that without exception these children were highly...