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PAGE 3 THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1073 Technological Revolution Starts on College Campus Chess Banker Has Dazzled London's Financial District (c) New York Times I The subdued words were a'lunchtime, and still plays chess LONDON Promptly at 10 sharp contrast to a comment to by correspondence, his principal a.m. a chauffeur-driven Rolls Bobby Fischer, who was activity is, of course, finance. V-1 41 0 1 among colleges in an enterprise that is too expensive for any one Institution to handle alone. i Royce glides to a halt at demanding more money Slater At present he is known in The Nevertheless, the commission had said simply: "Fischer has City, London's financial district building in the shadow of St. Is convinced that effective use of technology eventually will as one of the most razzle-dazzle 1 Jiftitww investment bankers of the past decade.

make it possible lor students 10 learn skills on their own and at Paul's Cathedral. The car door opens and Jim Slater, a lean, dapper figure, steps out quickly to move into a waiting ele said that money is the problem. Well here it is my message to Fischer is come on out, chicken." Although Slater declined to In the space of eight years, their own pace, will offer unlimited options to broaden their academic offerings, will vator that takes him to his of slater has turned a mere of savings into an investment speak to newsmen, his asso fTce for the morning round of ciates made it clear that the banking complex which is today phone calls to bankers in chess playing investment bank- valued at about $550 million. reduce faculty memoerj repetitive activities the same Wtures and exercises eiven Hong Kong, industrialists in By FRED M. HECH1NGER (c) New York Times NEW YORK A student in a special campus laboratory sits at a computerized typewriter with a Russian keyboard and, as he receives instructions through his earphones, he types sentences in Russian.

The voice on the earphones prods and corrects him. Students in a classroom absorb a history lesson from a professor seen on a television screen and register responses through a transmitter that keeps the instructor informed of their progress and permits him to change the topic, i necessary, by remote control. A student in his dormitory room slips a cassette into a machine and listens to a play or a panel discussion. These scenes are the halting beginnings of what the Carnegie and chairman of Slater Walk-' His personal South fortune i more than $6 l.a. HlVtJtUl a I II I.

estimated at securities was exuuani. over and over and will million creatlv expand off-campus study in the pattern of the successful two -year -old Open 1 rtoerS Tin Londo i "He had been waiting for 50 experts in Lonaon. ong for fte match tQ take pace The London phone calls and was so disappointed when clearly pleased the 43-year-oIdFischer dt show up" said investment banker. He associate. "When he heard assured that Bobby Fischer had; it was because of money, well.

I University Britain, wmcn enrolls 30,000 students witnout any campus attendance, dcnendinn extensively on radio he wanted to put Fischer behind finally flown to Iceland for the world championship chess match against Boris Spassky this the eight-ball and prove and television instruction. His aim, experts here insist, is to become the world's greatest international financier in the next ten years. "This is just the beginning," Slater said exuberantly two months ago after returning from a multimillion-dollar money raising jaunt in Europe. "Just watch us from now on." James Derrick Slater was born March 13, 1929 in the town of Wirral in Cheshire. i father, Hubert, was a local businessman.

Slater attended The commission recommends was the reason." Another associate said: "He's absorbed by chess, he loves a move spurred by Slater's offer of $123,000 to double the that the federal government chese purse provide aid $iuo muiion in jit. It's an intellectual exer- 1973 for a start to be inrrpased until it reaches 1 per I very delighted a tlcise with him. He very much Fischer has accepted yjwanted the match to take place financial offer and I hope that because, he felt, it would give chess a certain status in the Commission on Higher Education predicted would be a technological revolution on the college campus. Within the next three decades, the commission said, between 10 and 20 per cent of on-campus instruction and 80 cent of the annual expenditure for higher education. It also proposes that high school students be taught the working the match will now proceed," the millionaire said.

"I'm sure state schools, and, by the age of world of competitive sports." Although Slater sometimes it will be a very interesting and exciting championship." i manages to fit in a game at of the computer, that a new "fourth revolution" breed of teachers be encouraged, and per cent of off-campus educa -V MiAU'AFlSiAlP tion will be carried out by that seven cooperative learning means of computers, television, cassettes and a variety of othed by THOMAS JOSEPH LSUDWLIEN1E jnAjSRltOlSll electronic kits and devices. technology centers db established to develop the new techniques. SiS The predictions were made in UEURUjE RiYOElGiEIR opms QJ a commission report, "The Fourth Revolution: Instructional Technology in Higher Education." The term "fourth revolution" was coined by Sir Eric Ashby, a British educator, HTM SAl LAME UQ B.ORlN 11, Had played his first game of chess. The game fascinated him: As a youngster he played against J. A.

Fuller, who became British boy's champion and later drew against former British champion Sir George Thomas. After qualifying as an accountant, Slater began i career as a secretary with an engineering firm. He was later named director of a truck manufacturing company that eventually became a subsidiary of Leyland Motors, the giant British automotive company. Slater became deputy sales director and the associate of Lord Stokes, now the corporation's chairman. In 1964, with Peter Walker Securities, which controls more than 250 firms around the world, and has a large stake in mutual fund companies.

who described the first revolu -AP Wirephoto California Exposition in Del Mar. But staying on is tough. Trying, from front, are Eileen Ryan and Ricky Evind, both 12, and Tom Russell, 11. Yesterday's Answer 17. Subscribe 31.

An Arab It's Big But Slippery There is room for three passengers on the back of Herman, a hippopotamus at the Southern tion as the shift from home instruction to the school; the second as the "adoption of the written word as a tool of and the third as the invention of printing and the -i ACROSS DOWN 1. Slackened 1. Suffix for What the host or -1 expectant lion father did 2. Likely 11. Contem- 3.

New porary Mexican Veep Indian J2. Fire- 4. Go astray breathing 5. Goof; 13. Heavy bungle ealer (2wds.) (colloq.) 6.

What (2wds.) Jelly Roll 15. Skin Morion problem played 7. Old Baum French novel royal (2wds.) decree .,) 22. Noisy 8. Ungentle- parties manly 23.

Shilling chap- 25. Solidar- 9. Summer ity; one- (Fr.) ness 10. German Tl26. Koger article or 14.

Publisher Terry Adolph 28. Barbara 16. Food (si.) use of the book. The fourth revolution has Mill Rejects Blame for Fish Kill been in the making for about three decades. But intellectuals Troy Displaying Prof's Glass Art TROY Edwin Walter, assistant professor of art at Troy.

State University, will exhibit his work in Wallace Hall through. Saturday. Widely noted for his work in glass, Walter has exhibited throughout the South and has won several awards for his glass panels and decorative pieces. Spain Tourism Gains MADRID (AP) More than eight million foreign tourists visited Spain during the first five months of 1972, a study showed, and tourism income was $724.7 million. The figures reflectad a 12.4 per cent in-, crease in visitors and a 23.4 per cent increase in revenue over the same period of 1371.

in general and faculty members COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) An.mav move against the millitreat this affluent. So. we are land 32. Mama's boy 34.

Battering machine 35 for the road 36. Odalisque's chamber 37. Furniture truck 38. Got 39. Machine part 40.

District of England again 18. Spanish province 19. Final 20. "Christ Stopped at" 21. Signora Ponti 21.

Swiss city 26. Contemporary furniture style 27. Viva Manolete! 29. Employ in particular have resisted, riiimmnff tnfrt fho Char. after between 20,000 and 30,000 not nnf Slater's investment banking, insurance and property schemes partly because they consider executive of the Eagle and Phe-nix Mill division, Reeves Broth tahoochee." electronic devices as fish were killed June 15.

have impressed British finan dehumanizing and partly be Richard Penna, attorney for TTPA swirl hp is pvalnatint iru ers said Wednesday tne Robert H. Hicklin, executive! cause they fear for their own Columbus mill does not dump; influence and jobs. vice president of the firm, saidjformatjon regarding the in-the mill pays the City of Co-Icident. but that a decision on untreated material into the Moreover, industry has been ciers. He is now moving overseas in a massive way, with investments in Canada.

Australia, South Africa and Singapore. Slater and his wife, the former Helen Wyndham Goodwyn, live in a sprawling home in Chattahoochee River and is notjilimbus to treat its affluent ma- possible litigation has not been responsible for a fish kill in made. river two weeks ago. "We have installed in this He said that if it is determin- slow in mass-producing inex- pensive "hardware'' or machinery, and scholars have been equally slow in producing high-quality "soft-ware" the programs and tapes. There also has been a lack of cooperation The Georgia Water Quality! past year a complete collection ted that the mill violated the Control Board and the federal! (system) under the mill where-'1899 Safe Rivers and Harbors Surrey with the four children, to i Environmental Protection Agen- by we take our affluent and we Act, the matter would be tunv ranging age from one seven.

cv (EPA) have indicated they' pay the uty of Columbus toed over to the U.S. attorney. Geddes ,.29. Yell 30. Long-, fellow's "Tales of (2wds.) 33.

Republic of Ireland 34. 1938 Marx Brothers film (2 wds.) 41. South American 42. Conccrn-ingwar- ships 43. Labor leader, George -44.

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