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Skinnerians already use forms of branching, such as speeding up programs for the bright by using "diagnostic" frames ("If you got the last six questions right, skip the next 30"). Though Skinner's method may seem applicable only to fact learning (spelling, vocabulary, scientific terms), it" has already been used for everything from chess and chemistry to history, navigation and philosophy. It is also possible to program the new "concept" approaches in math and physics. The only real limitation is the programer's ability to analyze precisely how to define and achieve mastery of a subject. This seems...
Sunday Sports Spectacular (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). An aerial circus partly narrated by Flying Ace "Pappy" Boyington, in which acrobats skip about on the wings of planes in flight, board a flying aircraft from a moving car, and tell all about it while falling through the air some 6,000 ft. before pulling the parachute ripcord...
...Rolls-Royce does not "chug" no matter what the weather may be. It may skip, falter and, on rare and seldom proven occasions, even fail, but chug-never! It glides...
...than nine hours per week was automatically eligible for twelve extra PT outs during the year. The plan was attacked by Nathaniel A. Parker, Director of Physical Training, who opposed a blanket regulation because it provided as easy excuse for "kids who just don't like to exercise" to skip...
...Children who are to become eminent do not like schools or schoolteachers." Many famed men found their own homes more stimulating, preferred to skip school and read books omnivorously. Today's "regimented schools" would not consider them college material...