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...would be shunted off to an institution. Not so in Atlanta schools, which integrate blind children (161 this year) with sighted students in a showcase program that began in 1954. Impetus came from one father of a blind daughter: Robert Hogg, a beer wholesaler, who faced up to his problem by launching the Foundation for Visually Handicapped Children. Hogg's group today spends $20,000 a year giving free training to blind pre-schoolers throughout Georgia. Purpose: to help parents prepare the children for as normal a life as possible. Says Bob Hogg: "When you discover your child...
...resource room" they also have Braille reference books, relief maps to learn geography, and simple props to illustrate abstractions, e.g., toy train tracks to illustrate a parallel. Only real problem: coddling by sighted children, who have to be asked not to be overhelpful...
...Very disappointing," said the U.S. State Department. Chief problem is in providing a system sensitive enough to distinguish nuclear shocks from normal small earthquakes, of which thousands occur every year. Under the Russian-approved system, U.S. negotiators pointed out, the Nevada shot-a ig-kiloton explosion-would have been read as an earthquake, and therefore ruled out for inspection. New ammunition was a study made by the Rand Corp., at the suggestion of Dr. Edward Teller, director of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. Rand mathematicians theorized that any underground explosion can be "decoupled" by placing...
...into flight condition. The accidents did not stem from any basic flaw in design. Most of the troubles came from unrelated, random-type failures that plague every missile, including the Atlas, which failed five times in a row earlier this year before the bugs were taken out. The big problem is that Martin has had not only routine troubles but so many plain, ordinary goofs. Among them: a Titan suffered ruptured tanks and ripped skin at Denver in August, when workers failed to follow specified fueling procedures, pumped fuel into the tanks at too rapid a rate. Another was severely...
Pressure is only part of it. More and more missilemen suspect that the real problem is Martin's management. Critics point to a series of personnel shifts, con fusion and poor morale throughout the company. At times, the troubleshooters sent out from Baltimore only stepped on each other's toes, and compounded the trouble they were sent to fix. For some plant areas, everything operates by word of mouth. In others red tape is so thick that the head of a subdepartment must clear everything he does with his department chief. Martin's men at Cape Canaveral...