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Its great advantage would lie in the fact that it would enable each student to work at his own rate of speed. Able students, previously held back because teachers have to devote extra time to slower pupils, could, with one of Skinner's devices, progress independently of both the teacher...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Psychological Labs Test Human Actions In Overcrowded Mem Hall Facilities | 12/20/1956 | See Source »

What makes Manie a Pied Piper of stars? He says: "My relations with artists are close. I'm a bachelor. Supper isn't on the table at 6 o'clock. I come and go as I please. So I can devote my time to them and I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Pied Piper's Problems | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

At the outbreak of World War I, Russian-born Alexei Jawlensky took refuge in Switzerland, after being expelled from Germany without being permitted to take along so much as one painting. To his aid came a young German painter, Emy Scheyer, one of the many women who found Jawlensky'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: THE SOLDIER WHO WANTED TO PAINT | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

Cambridge, 38 handles the mail when it comes into its area of action and jurisdiction and rests content to devote its energy to the task of maintaining an efficient postal system on a relatively small scale. If it continues to succed in doing this, it will have done one job...

Author: By Frederick W. Bryon jr., | Title: 'Cambridge, 38' Withstands Snow, Rain and Students | 12/1/1956 | See Source »

& Towne Research Center at Valley Forge, had been testing new devices for large and heavy hydraulic valves used in Yale fork lift trucks, when he worked on and developed the tiny new silicone plastic valve in a stainless steel body on an entirely new medical principle to control the fluid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 19, 1956 | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

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