Machines may soon teach lessons from kindergarten to college
Dr. B F Skinner of Harvard predicts teaching machines could serve all grades within two to five years, delivering hard core subjects in single sessions and reducing homework. A Rheem machine prototype demonstrated at the American Psychological Association meeting could cost under $100 and be available for experimental use by year’s end.
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Teachig
B. F. Skinner
Harvard University
Skinner
Electronics
Rheem Manufacturing Co
Los Angeles
American Psychological Assa
Rheem
Big Cuts Don t Stop Spending
Congress cut appropriations for the current year by 547 million dollars but Budget Director Maurice H. Stans warned the net effect may be negligible or even a rise in expenditures. He cited long term foreign aid and military construction as factors and noted Health Education and Welfare boosts may offset cuts. The Senate sent two bills to the President, including military construction and an independent agencies bill, both under budget targets. foreign aid measures remain in committee.
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Senate
Eisenhower
Maurice H. Stans
Stans
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Eugene McCarthy
D. Minn
White House
House
Senate Appropriations Committee
Fiery Crash Kills Driver in Ohio Near Van Buren
Findlay Ohio AP reports Clark J. Elliswood 23 died in a head on crash on U S 25 north of Van Buren near the Wood County line. The truck driver Charles McShurley 39 of Muncie Ind escaped injury as his vehicle caught fire and burned.
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Findlay, Ohio
Findlay
Clark J. Elliswood
U.S. 25
van Buren
Wood County
Charles McShurley
Muncie
Ind
Ohio Highway Patrol
Gun Trick Went Wrong Kills Teen In Maryland Hospital
Patricia Stillwell eighteen demonstrated a revolver safe trick to her friend Brenda Stringer fourteen by removing five of six bullets from her uncle s gun. She pressed the trigger three times to her temple saying it was safe. On the fourth attempt the gun fired, and she died at Maryland General Hospital.
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Baltimore
Patricia Stillwell
Brenda Stringer
Patricia
Maryland General Hospital
Space Men Ready for Mercury Mission Says NASA
Seven astronauts at Langley defend spaceflight against public fear of death in 1961. They compare risk to D-Day but believe hazards are manageable, discuss reentry heat, radiation, and meteors, and stress team effort behind Project Mercury. Glenn, Shepard, Grissom, and Cooper lead candid talks on danger, training, and hopeful first orbit.
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Malcolm S. Carpenter
Langley Air Force Base
Carpenter
Grissom
Langley Air Base
America
Outer Space
Earth
No. 1
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Normandy
Navy
Malcolm
Garden Grove
Calif
Air Force
Virgil J. Grissom
Mitchell
Ind
Christopher Columbus
New World
Alan B. Shepar Jr
East Derry
N.H
Columbus
John H. Glenn Jr
New Concord
Ohio
Ubangi
Africa
Glenn
Leroy G. Cooper
Shawnee
Okla
Cooper
Space
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James A. van Allen
University of Iowa
Cmdr
Shepard
van Allen Belt
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Equator
California
Atlantic Ocean
Florida
John Powers
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Able
Baker
Col. Glenn
Blunder of the Century Feighan Attacks Khrushchev Invite
Representative Michael Feighan labeled President Eisenhower's invitation to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev as the political blunder of the century. He urged a record vote on any proposal for Khrushchev to address Congress and tied the issue to Republican nomination dynamics involving Nixon and Rockefeller.
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Michael A. Feighan
Ohio
Eisenhower
Nikita S. Khrushchev
United States
Feighan
Khrushchev
Congress
The
House
Richard M. Nixon
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Nixon
Rockefeller
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