Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from racial minority groups-are so hard to place that the Los Angeles County Department of Adoptions has taken to broadcasting their availability on commercial TV. Since October, the department has shown 64 such children on a once-weekly quarter-hour segment of Ben Hunter's Matinee, a program of old movies interspersed with talk. Result: up to 35 phone calls immediately following each show and 34 of the children adopted, including a two-year-old boy with eye trouble, a one-year-old girl with club feet, and a two-month-old Filipino-Chinese-Hawaiian...
Jones, now 37, became a young millionaire (TIME cover, Dec. 3, 1965) soon after he left a data-processing job at North American Aviation and founded Computer Sciences with $100 capitalization. The company grew into a bustling enterprise with $53.5 million annual sales, as Jones devised new programs and uses for the computers that other companies were making. One Computer Sciences innovation is Computax, an income tax program that speeds and eases the work for accountants doing corporate or personal tax returns. Another, about to be introduced, is Computicket which will link every kind of entertainment from baseball to ballet...
...rules covering Independent Study are also being loosened so that anyone holding a regular academic appointment at a college or university in the area will be allowed to supervise a student's Independent Study program. Usually Independent Studies must be directed by Corporation appointees...
These changes apply only to African studies and only next year (Ford calls them "strictly stop-gap"). A Faculty Committee on Afro-American Studies was created about a month ago, and when its recommendations for a permanent Harvard program of Afro-American studies are formed and adopted the cross-registration will probably be phased...
...hundred Negro students and faculty members from southern colleges will study at Harvard this summer under a privately financed program to improve Negro education, Thomas E. Crooks, Director of the Summer School, said Wednesday...