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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...skies" proposal of 1955. As an illustration of how much aerial surveillance could detect, the President displayed a blown-up photograph of the North Island Naval Air Station at San Diego. The photograph had been taken at an altitude of 13 miles (from a U-2 of the same type as Pilot Francis Powers flew over Russia), but visible in it were parking-lot stripes a mere six inches wide...
...crowded classrooms, decaying school buildings and swarming moppets, products of the postwar baby boom, are too inescapably evident to be ignored. The Senate passed a hefty education bill in February, and last week, at the urging of Vice President Nixon, the Administration moved toward acceptance of a Democratic-type education program, despite President Eisenhower's distaste for direct federal subsidies...
...screws. Government purchasing agents agreed to a price of $1 apiece. If ¶The Defense Department sold 488 unused heavy-duty tires as surplus at about $60 apiece, though they had cost the Government $311. A few days later, a Defense Department arsenal bought 20 tires of the same type for $341 each. In another surplus sale, the Government unloaded 369 tires at $266. then bought some more of the same...
Most psychiatrists expect some undesirable, incidental effects from Librium but not so many or so bizarre as those reported by Dr. Murray. They agree that with the right dosage and for the right type of patient, Librium is a useful drug...
Triangles & TV. The council's first job is to revamp math teaching for 100,000 youngsters from first through eighth grade. The basic idea is to make math fascinating instead of a drudgery. First-graders use Tinkertoy-type men with wooden "fingers" to play variations on a theme of ten. Mental arithmetic encourages fast shortcutting. Algebra's inscrutable x's and y's become inviting squares and triangles that cry to be filled...