Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other reassuring facts in Washington's week of survey: ¶ Because of the promise shown by Thor, the National Security Council reversed a three-month-old economy order by now-retired Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson cutting back research-and-development production of Thor test missiles from four a month to two. New quota under the NSC order: four a month. In sanctioning a step-up in Thor production the NSC did not rule out the Army's competitive, "hand-tooled" Jupiter, which may well go into stockpile production with Thor. Reason for production of both, with resulting complication...
...cannot even compare the number of hours spent in our high schools with those spent in any European or Russian secondary school. There, an hour at school means an hour of uninterrupted serious work; here there are assemblies, errands to be run, trips to survey various adult activities, checking on the fire department or the bakery, and much time goes into preparing the school play. Every pupil in a European science-mathematics secondary school has nine years of one foreign language and six years of another. Yet many of our high schools teach no foreign languages at all. Some American...
Where small-town papers once focused exclusively on Mrs. Murphy, the multiplying middleweights have built circulation with the worldwide coverage for which readers formerly turned to metropolitan dailies. Many newspapers are prospering in spite of almost irresponsible mediocrity. But in a comparative survey last week, TIME correspondents across the U.S. found that in a majority of cases top national and international stories got substantially the same play in big cities and small. The middle-tier papers have also been quick to seize on such technological advances as color printing, tele-typesetters and cheap, fast methods that enable them...
Shortly after Sputnik I went up, a survey of first-and second-year college students in the Mid-west revealed that 10 per cent of them were not aware that Russia had launched a satellite...
COUNTRY CLUBS get $793 a year from average member. Survey of 50 clubs with total enrollment of 31,000 shows typical member spends $288 for dues, $141 for drinks, $244 for food, only $51 for sports, $69 for other items...