Word: programming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committeemen opened another file cabinet, urged the firing of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, whom they blame for the heavy G.O.P. losses in the Midwest. At that point Alcorn got the anti-Benson motion tabled, closed the two-day session on a note of hearty approval for the Alcorn program...
...Transformation. In the two years since the death of able, hard-driving President Ramon Magsaysay (TIME, March 25, 1957), amiable, luxury-loving Carlos Garcia and his friends have done much to diminish the luster of the Philippines as Asia's democratic showcase. A costly industrialization program, crop failures, fluctuating export prices, corruption and administration ineptitude have caused gold and dollar reserves to sink to a scant $100 million. (The nation's trade deficit last year was $120 million.) While the fat cats of the Garcia administration whoop it up at posh Manila gambling joints, 1,360,000 Filipinos...
...More often than not they drop out before graduation to take dead-end jobs, in a few years send to school another generation of hopeless pupils. But to some 450 youngsters at Manhattan's George Washington High School and Junior High School 43, an experimental teaching and guidance program offers a fair chance to complete high school, and for the brightest, a hope of going on to college. This week, after more than two years' trial, the New York City board of education pronounced the experiment a success, planned to ask for $500,000 to extend the program...
...Works. Sponsored by the city, the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, the project is no quick educational cureall. The hope is to try to balance the dragging weight of the children's hard-luck homes with a long-range program of understanding help at school. Project classes are small (range: ten to 28); teachers are carefully briefed on each child's background; the children are taken on after-hours class trips, get repeated personal counseling. At George Washington, stocky, balding Counselor David Schulman, who grew up in Brooklyn, sees...
...scientific educational equipment." The U.S. makes nothing like the classroom wave-motion machine, and an American-made projector that costs Harvard $300 serves the purpose no better than a Russian model that costs $24.50 (plus 40% duty) delivered in New York. Adds Dr. Albert Navez, whose high school program in Newton, Mass, last year turned out both winners of the Westinghouse Science Talent Search (TIME, March 17): "It's a little bit fantastic, after we've been told their equipment is so rudimentary, to find this remarkable stuff...