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...Fair Yardstick. The charge of bias on the S.A.T.s is an old one. Since they were instituted in 1926, educators have variously accused E.T.S. of loading them against girls, rural youths, and most of the country outside the Northeast; the Testing Service, in fact, spends about $500,000 a year on research to improve the exams. Although Negro students do less well on the S.A.T.s, College Board Official W. H. Manning argues that this merely "reveals the extent to which the disadvantaged person is cheated in his education." Any cultural bias in the exams, the testers add, reflects the fact...
Historian, anthologist and member of the Spanish Academy of Letters, Diaz-Plaja uses as his yardstick the seven deadly sins of medieval theology. His countrymen, he says, are completely free of the sin of avarice, largely because it conflicts with their dedication to the sin of pride-"The man who is obliged to keep up appearances shows off first and then counts the pennies." Spaniards, he says, are openly lustful ("There is nothing clandestine about Spanish appreciation of sex"), but not particularly gluttonous: they consider clothes more important than food, talk more important than wine. Spaniards are lazy, but mostly...
...whatever yardstick one uses, the American policy of isolating China has not worked," he said. "Communist control has continued. China has not remained isolated from the rest of the world." Now, Findley added, the war in Vietnam moves daily toward inviting a direct confrontation between the two nuclear powers...
...Detroit's favorite yardstick -sales - the Ford Mustang is the most successful car ever introduced. And the men who were responsible for it are being suitably rewarded. Lee Iacocca, the Ford division general manager who introduced the Mustang (TIME cover, April 17, 1964), is now corporate vice president responsible for all Ford Motor Co. production and sales. Donald N. Frey (pronounced Fry), Iacocca's assistant general manager and chief engineer, the man who actually designed the Mustang, succeeded his boss two years ago as Ford division general manager. Last week Frey, 44, moved even higher. He was promoted...
...redeeming social importance" in the fact that 491 professes "constructive ideas" even while it purveys seamy sex. Moreover, he noted a vital effect of last term's Supreme Court decision in Mishkin v. New York, which apparently discarded the "average person" test of prurient interest. Now the yardstick is "the probable recipient group"-which seems to mean that judges must determine whom the material is aimed at and how it appeals to that particular group-an effect that Moore believes "can never be ascertained with certainty...