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...simplest and purest execution of the "cluster" concept will be tried at the 15,000-student Florida State University in Tallahassee, where 240 freshmen-a tenth of the entering class-will be randomly divided into eight groups. Each group of 30 will take basic courses together, sharing the same assignments and teachers. The rest of the class will be assigned in the normal unpatterned way so that the attitudes and academic achievement of the two groups can be compared...
Summer was almost over, and there was a chill on Wall Street. At the New York Stock Exchange, Dow-Jones industrials started last week at 804.62, and fell 12.59 points for a tenth consecutive Monday loss. Tuesday, the industrials slipped another 1.89 points on the largest single-day volume (9,830,000 shares) in three months. On Wednesday came a 9.41-point rally-only to be followed by two days of loss that wiped out the gain. Ending the week at 780.56, the industrials thus showed a five-day loss of 24.06 points (and a two-week drop...
...delicate an instrument is the human ear that at certain frequencies it can discern sound that moves the eardrum a distance only one-tenth the size of a hydrogen atom. The close-up roar of a jet engine amounts to one million billion times this threshhold level; this causes actual pain and soon brings on permanent deafness. Sound vibrations are transmitted by the eardrum and ossicle bones to the inner ear, a bony and membranous structure lined with tiny hairs that connect to the brain's auditory nerve. It is these hairs that are damaged most in noise-induced...
...Israeli government decided that a museum was no place for the remains of a donor. Next, Billy's sisters, Fiftyish Polly Rose Gottlieb, and Sixtyish Miriam Stern, scouted Westchester Hills Cemetery in Ardsley, N.Y. After driving out with Executor Arthur Cantor, a Broad way pressagent and producer (The Tenth Man), the sisters chose the cemetery's biggest plot, which cost some $48,000 and lay opposite the grave cf Composer George Gershwin. They also planned a monument designed by Sculptor Isamu Noguchi...
...inside-of Negro, Puerto Rican and white children sitting together on tenement steps or splashing together in the spray of a fire hydrant. They depict the plight of slum children with touches of humor and pathos. One story tells of a kid who moves to Manhattan's Tenth Street and has to beat up the toughest boy on the block to be accepted. Main flaw in some books is that the integration is too tidy: illustrations too often show exactly three kids together-one Negro, one Puerto Rican and one white...