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...crack down on them, they just freeze," explains a teacher at the Illinois State Training School for Boys in St. Charles. The kids have to be stimulated to learn, rather than threatened. "Threats are useless," contends Sam Jones, a teacher at the Fred C. Nelles School for Boys in Whittier, Calif. "These kids have been threatened by masters...
Like many new products, it came about almost by accident. Norman Stingley, a chemist for Bettis Rubber Co. in Whittier, Calif., was playing around with a high-resiliency synthetic rubber in his spare time. He fashioned a crude ball of the goo by compressing it under some 3,500 lbs. of pressure per square inch, discovered that it had a fantastic bounce. But Bettis Co. was not interested, mostly because the ball tended to fall apart after five minutes. So Stingley took it to Wham O Manufacturing Co. in San Gabriel, Calif., the company that made juvenile history by producing...
Founded in 1959 by President William T. Hughes, a Whittier, Calif., businessman, in cooperation with some of his local fellow Rotarians, the school has thus far organized three floating semesters, and is planning a fourth, beginning next October. Courses include the standard liberal arts and sciences, plus "Advanced Fundamental Skills," which teaches "swimming, dancing, weight training, judo, wrestling, fencing," and Course 300, a "historical overview of the European origin of sports, games and gymnastics." The daily schedule of five hours of classwork had its problems. "You'd be writing an exam, and your chair would be sliding across...
...Olympus, but to New England. Born in Boston, it chose a poet, James Russell Lowell, as its first editor; it was published by and for New England's self-centered literary establishment. The magazine served largely to give such 19th century essayists as Emerson, Longfellow, Holmes, Whittier and Thoreau-some of whom took a hand in the Atlantic's establishment-a literary outlet of their...
Biggest job belongs to Robert Baldwin, a Whittier College physics major, who looks after Owner Ryan's private network of 77 telephone stations, modeled after the internal exchange on a Navy ship. Combinations of 220 phone numbers will light up the pools, tennis courts, caves, fountains and trees; they will open and close doors, start up the waterfalls, greet a guest with a recorded message or serenade a caller with music to wait by. On a thickly wooded trail, the phone sounds with natural bird calls instead of the usual noisy ring...