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...Crowder's lively "scrambled books," which Doubleday publishes as TutorTexts, the reader starts on the first page, is then sent scurrying to widely scattered pages throughout the book. This is the "branching" technique, which Crowder developed as an Air Force psychologist while tutoring technicians in troubleshooting on 8-47 bombsights. Crowder believes that his method is better fitted to individuals than Skinner's somewhat Orwellian linear system. Crowder's method is demonstrably effective in such problem-solving areas as labor-management relations...
...report emphasized the need for avoiding the "stereotyped, one-level" approach to reading instruction used in many elementary schools. No provision is made at these schools for either the retarded or the advanced reader, the report said. In addition, it accused schools of relying too much upon the phonetic approach to reading instruction...
...report further asserted that there is almost no elementary instruction in "those higher reading skills which make the real difference between the mechanical and the mature reader." Many instructors in teaching colleges claim that their students lack these skills themselves...
...Nuts." Graham's buy was a switch for a man whose only interest in Newsweek, until two weeks ago, was that of a fairly regular reader. Then he heard from a friend, New York Investment Banker Charles Spalding, who is also a good friend of Jack Kennedy's, that Newsweek was up for grabs (TIME, Jan. 27). Graham moved so swiftly that the finale caught his own paper by surprise: with Graham in New York on the day word of the sale leaked out. the Post was forced to rely on wire copy for its first story...
...view. He and his wife (he has two daughters, both at college) live in a big and ancient house on Brattle Street in Cambridge, have a summer place in New Hampshire. Land likes to relax with his large hi-fi collection, occasionally plays tennis, is a fast and retentive reader...