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Though dozens of different eye charts have been proposed by assorted experts in half a century, none has displaced the familiar Snellen chart, topped by its king-sized "E". But this week the American Optometric Association announced the adoption of a chart made up of numerals, which, its members hope, will send the old Snellen into outer darkness...
...Ottis White, president of the optometrists,* attacked the Snellen chart as a crude test which ignores the way people actually use their eyes. "The new A.O.A. standard tests visual recognition-meaningful vision-rather than mere visual acuity," said Optometrist White. "It takes into account the many distinct skills involved in visual recognition, including light perception, contrast perception, resolving power, line perception and shape perception." The eyes of ordinary mortals could not detect these fine points; to them, the new chart looked like just a lot of heavily drawn figures...
Many eye doctors were inclined to sniff at the optometrists' new chart, arguing that most such gadgets are crude at best, and the Snellen is no cruder than the rest. However, the last word may be the optometrists' : they give three times as many eyesight tests as the ophthalmologists...
...full war strength. It was against this professional estimate of the situation that the President of the U.S. set his opinion and cut the 1953 Air Force budget. Its effect: a postponement to 1955 of the date on which the U.S. can achieve its 143-wing air force (see chart). It was after this decision that the House of Representatives, also weighing politics against the military estimate, slashed the 1953 Air Force budget still further, and pushed the 143-wing date to 1957-or beyond. In trying to get the Senate to undo the House's damage, Air Secretary...
...many of you may have already discovered for yourselves, co-Authors Ernest Havemann and Dr. Patricia Salter West (a ca-CHART)8 reer woman-housewife) recognized the possibility that marriage might be a matter of choice when they wrote: "It may be that the kind of woman who goes to college, and stays there until she gets her degree, is simply by nature the self-sufficient type who does not regard marriage as woman's ultimate destiny-and will not embark upon it except under the most promising circumstances...