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...fetched $16,500 from a buyer. Why was Wolfson cashing in his collection? Fingering the 1850 gold dollars (value: $150) that adorn his cuff links, he explained: "I've come within 8% of getting one of every gold coin minted in this country. It's been a thrill, but I'd never have been able to complete...
...theory of programmed learning is that nothing succeeds like success. It holds that some subjects are learned best when broken into tiny chunks of information that students can master one by one, each step providing its own little thrill of accomplishment. It works for subjects as diverse as chemistry, philosophy and navigation. Now a high school has organized its entire curriculum on programmed learning's principle...
...attention a few years ago by asserting that the U.S. was verging on decadence with "the two-hour lunch, the three-day weekend and the all-day coffee break. What we have to do is teach that work can be fun-that the only reward life offers is the thrill of achievement." No decadent himself, Brower lives in an unpretentious New Jersey home that he bought 20 years ago, and until recently mowed his own lawn...
...steel-nerved, a championship of far-out, far-up sport, and the finest things about it were hidden by clouds and distance. For spectators at Orange, Mass., last week, the World Sport Parachuting Championships held bleak rewards: the sight of countless parachutes floating down, enough accidents to add the thrill of danger. But for the chutists, there was the intoxicating sensation of man flying on his own, guiding his long, downward swoop through the atmosphere...
...proudest of these is the 59-story Pan Am Building, now climbing above Manhattan's Grand Central Station, for which Cotton supplied $25 million of the $100 million cost; he will manage the finished building. Cotton remembers the ground-breaking with special pride. "It was a great thrill," he says, "seeing the Union Jack flying beside the Stars and Stripes over the site of the biggest office building in the world−and knowing we'd put it there with an equal share of British money...