Word: wayland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against spraying depends on her contention that DDT and its near chemical relatives are poisonous to humans, especially since they tend to accumulate in fatty tissues. Experts do not agree. A mere trace of DDT kills insects, but humans and other mammals can absorb large doses without damage. Dr. Wayland J. Hayes, chief of the toxicology section of the U.S. Public Health Service in Atlanta says that every meal served in the U.S. probably contains a trace of DDT, but that this is nothing to worry about. He and his co-workers fed 200 times the normal amount...
...tournament was held earlier this month on Sandy Burr Country Club in Wayland...
...Wayland's most striking architectural feature is a field house with a geodesic dome to replace the traditional gym. Though it includes a basketball court (taken apart at season's end), the field house is not limited by the court's dimensions. The domed design yields 41,000 sq. ft. of enclosed space, including an indoor dirt track, exercise rooms, and seats for the Wayland Town Meeting...
Giant Half Step. Geared to college-bound students, Wayland has a Trumplike curriculum. The typical student will spend 10% of his time in seminars, 80% in the conventional classroom, 10% in large lecture-discussions. With team teaching and an adviser for every 20 students, each student will be encouraged to go as far as he can in each field. A bright youngster may pick up broad principles in group discussions, carry them further in seminars, use the "resource areas" to dig in on his own, and wind up with advanced standing in college...
...Wayland is still only "a giant half step into the future," says President Harold Gores of the Ford Foundation's Educational Facilities Laboratories. By no means is it expensive ($12.40 per sq. ft.) nor so frugally designed as to be inhuman. In fact, the architects have a high ambition for it: that to the students it will be "a school which will compete with the corner drugstore...