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In his historic study of the U.S. high school, James B. Conant spent one year inspecting 55 schools in 18 states to see if they were teaching what he believed they should be teaching. How well they taught is another matter. Last week a canny faultfinder was being tuned up...
Financed by a Ford Foundation grant, Peabody has tried out the computer on five school systems in the past year. It will soon publish instructions for any U.S. school that cares to try the method. "Without a computer." says Peabody's Professor Curtis Ramsey, "this work would take so...
Increased Pressure. Early in the game Raborn concluded that the management techniques of U.S. industry were not good enough for him; businessmen, he told his civilian assistant Gordon Pehrson, know figures, but they do not know what goes on in their plants. Raborn's management experts soon set up...
For the U.S. Air Force, which can operate out of some 250 worldwide bases, one of the biggest problems is how best to deploy its forces in an emergency. Sudden situations-such as last week's Congo airlift, in which U.S. planes played a significant role-call for quick...
Hypothetical Wars. Tech Ops has built its reputation with the armed forces and other Government agencies as an outfit to consult for answers to the far-out problems of space travel, radiation, communications, etc. It has contracts for such theoretical tasks as simulating a hydrogen bomb blast in outer space...