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...barrier against such tyranny, at Harvard and elsewhere, has been the relative inaccuracy with which present tests predict college performance. The National Merit Scholarship Corporation, in an effort to find tests of greater "usefulness," is developing criteria for admission that promise to predict college grades with unprecedented accuracy by combining the familiar Scholastic Aptitude Test with several standard personality tests. Already past the first stages of research, the Merit Corporation is now investigating the different personality factors associated with performance in individual colleges...
...need not believe that Harvard is consciously directing its students into graduate school, nor that it is solely concerned with grades, to wonder at the effects of new scoring systems that will predict both with great accuracy. The temptation to rely on scores, as Merit and the National Science Foundation have shown, can overpower good intentions, and though today Harvard may be little concerned that students seem to attend graduate school with increasing frequency, it may be forced to take a more interest when it can predict what will do after graduation college...
...left-wing Socialists, who had long been working closely with the Communists. Chief architect of the experiment is shrewd, scholarly Premier Amintore Fanfani, who believes that only through the Nenni alliance can he muster the votes needed for necessary domestic reforms (TIME, Feb. 9). But many left-wingers predict gloomily that Nenni will become a hostage of the right, while conservatives fear that Fanfani will become a hostage of the left. Rome's coffeehouse commentators accurately described the Fanfani-Nenni coalition as a canto connubio-a cautious marriage...
...living theater. I gave them one in 1954 and spent a million bucks on it." Hundreds of thousands more have gone into Hartford's researches on graphology. He is forever analyzing the handwriting of business associates and friends, believes that some day it will be possible to predict human behavior through handwriting analysis. "My handwriting," says he modestly, "shows I'm something of a perfectionist." And so he is. At Paradise Island last week, for example, he devoted more than an hour of serious conversation with an aide to the question of whether to charge guests...
...prosecution from three different quarters-the U.S., the European nation in which they are operating and the Common Market. In some respects, they are apt to find the Common Market code the clearest and easiest to comply with. In contrast to the U.S., where the Justice Department cannot always predict whether the courts will find a proposed deal in violation of the antitrust laws, businessmen are promised a solid ruling in advance from the Common Market trustbusters. Equally important, the Common Market commission is expected to condone any cartel that it judges to be economically necessary or beneficial...