Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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curious." Speaking at a Pacific Coast writer's powwow, Emmy-winning TV Producer David Susskind, moderator of his own 10 p.,m.-to-sometime chitchat program (Open End), beamed out in the New York City area, was asked which of three presidential candidates on his recent shows came on as the strongest interviewee. Liberal Democrat Susskind gave Liberal Republican Nelson Rockefeller the poorest marks: "He evaded and dodged every effort to get him to substantiate what he had said in public only a few days earlier." Another disheartening performer was Democrat Adlai Stevenson: "I approached him with something like...
...Pitt is experimenting with a novel "trimester" system that keeps the campus humming eleven months of the year. As the number of students seeking a college education grows by leaps and bounds, Pitt (normal enrollment: 15,000) cannot possibly keep up without a huge-and much too costly-expansion program. But by educating its students faster, in much the same way as World War II's acceleration programs, the school hopes to find...
Careful Planning. Masterminded by Pitt's dynamic Chancellor Edward H. Litchfield, the trimester system was started last fall for the freshman and sophomore classes. Juniors and seniors will be included in the program in the fall...
...they are still quite young. As for the teachers, they can either earn one-third more money each year or, by working only two of the shortened semesters, find more time for research and travel. So far, Pitt has had no trouble signing up faculty members to staff the program...
...quarter, and may rise in the final period. Says a top Administration economist: "That drag is behind us." Plant and equipment spending, although trimmed slightly, will still be 14% ahead of last year and close to the 1957 record of $37 billion. Federal highway spending under the federal aid program will double to $1.4 billion in the next three months; Government purchasing will rise by $1 billion in the second half. Congress also added $661 million to the defense budget last week. Another cheering sign is the continuing increase in productivity. Last week the Labor Department reported that the output...