Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...appalled at your misconception concerning the Yale-North Haven Summer School [which has a Yale teacher-training program]. True, it is an experience for us students but, for the most part, not a worthwhile one. The influence of the master teacher is felt by the student only through the awkward efforts of the teachers-in-training, who, moreover, are often less acquainted with their subject than are their pupils...
...Workshop in Learning," a private summer-enrichment program for junior high school pupils in the Greater Cleveland area, was extremely successful this summer. One comment overheard by a teacher: one student to another, "You know, while going with the teachers to field trips, I found out that they're just like real nice people...
Williams A. Owens, director of the Columbia program, felt that summer credits were not considered academically respectable. The number of students turned away, though, represents only five percent of the 2,000 enrollment...
...biggest bottleneck in the U.S. missile program is not the development or testing of the giant birds-which have been firing successfully-but construction of the bases that would be needed to send them winging against an enemy. The U.S. now has six operational Atlas intercontinental ballistic missiles-and by schedule should now have 18. Later this year twelve Atlases will be operational, whereas there should be more than 30. Last week 56 top executives of companies that make the Atlas and its launching sites returned home from Washington after a rousing pep talk from Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates...
...bossed the Army missile program and helped put the U.S. into space last week took on an unlikely new job. Major General (ret.) John B. Medaris, 58, who quit the Army six months ago to protest the Administration's "reluctant dragon" attitude toward space, was named president and chief executive officer of the Lionel Corp., the nation's largest producer of miniature trains (1959 sales: $15.8 million). Medaris' special qualification for the job, aside from proved administrative abilities: a longtime fondness for electric trains, which he used to collect...