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AFTER COLUMBIA, American universities will never be quite the same again. That is a statement like "the atom bomb changed the nature of American diplomacy," not a prediction or a hope. The ground rules for playing University Power Struggle have changed...
...primitive man, nature was so harsh and powerful that he deeply respected and even worshiped it. He did the environment very little damage. But technological man, master of the atom and soon the moon, is so aware of his strength that he is unaware of his weakness-the fact that his pressure on nature may provoke revenge. Although sensational cries of impending doom have overstated the case, modern man has reached the stage where he must recognize that real dangers exist. Indeed, many scholars of the biosphere are now seriously concerned that human pollution may trigger some ecological disaster...
...lier suggestion that soft X rays would be given off by hot, thinly dispersed hydrogen gas, the NRL scientists turned to their computers. To produce the detected radiation, they calculated, the temperature of the gas would have to be 1,400,000° F. and its density only one atom of hydrogen in every 3.5 cu. ft. of space. But even at this low density, says Astrophysicist Henry, the hydrogen gas would constitute 100 times as much matter as there is in all of the galaxies combined and thus solve the mystery of the universe's missing mass...
Died. Charles C. Lauritsen, 76, nuclear physicist who built one of the earliest atom smashers and was part of the team that developed the atomic bomb; after a long illness; in Pasadena, Calif. Working at the California Institute of Technology in 1934, Lauritsen, with his atom smasher, became the first to produce neutrons with artificially accelerated particles...
...blamed the industry primarily, but thought the government could do more. "The FCC should be taken out and machine-gunned," he said half facetiously at one point. Rich cited particularly the violent Saturday-morning cartoon shows, which he said are "almost as dreadful for kids as the atom bomb." He then admitted that his own agency's clients sponsored two of them, and concluded: "It's a pretty disgraceful thing...