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...ballots were well-known Duvalier partisans. Only one candidate came out swinging against the regime, and he withdrew for "personal reasons" on election eve. Voting-day squads of police spread a dragnet for anti-Duvalier Haitians, most of whom had prudently gone into hiding. Only a fraction of Haiti's 1,000,000 voters bothered to turn out. Most of those who voted were civil servants...
...direct-cycle system, designed by General Electric, is cumbersome and requires excessively heavy shielding as protection from radiation. The air passing through the reactor picks up a fraction of the fission products and exhausts it to the atmosphere as fallout during takeoff, landing and normal flight. As a result, it is unlikely that the aircraft could be operated from normal commercial or military airfields...
Keppel advocated expansion of research and development in education. "An enterprise of $15 billion a year is now conducted with a bare fraction of one per cent devoted to research and development," he said...
Even worse, says Mayer, is the "general agreement" that "only a small fraction of children are truly educable on the secondary level." This is an illusion, owing to overreliance on IQ scores, which in fact can be raised by training. An example is New York City's "Higher Horizons" program, which has raised low IQs among "culturally deprived" children simply by inspiring them to aim for college (TIME, Oct. 12, 1959). Mayer suggests that U.S. education's test craze is largely a crutch for inadequate teaching. Good teachers take IQs lightly. At Louisville's Manly Junior High...
...Robert E. Lusk. Over the years, Lusk said, the agency has suffered in silence while its two former owners* have taken turns knocking advertising, often to the bewilderment of clients unaware that neither "B" is connected any longer with B.& B. Both sold their interests, said Lusk, for "a fraction of a million dollars, and I mean a fraction." When Bowles sold out in 1941, the agency billed $10,500,000 a year; since his departure, the agency has achieved big-league status, last year billed...