Word: basics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last able to accept a few of the 3,300 speaking bids he had received. "I am not going on this trip as a candidate," said he. He would talk about "national and international" issues. "I have had for a great many years close ties and very basic concern in these problems." Mainly, he wants to "exchange ideas with others, get their reactions to mine. I think such a process is good for our country, for my party, and is enriching for me personally...
...power behind Southern Cal's surge to the top is an oldfashioned, rib-rattling line that clears the way for T-formation backs. On the basic power sweep to the right, glowering End Marlin McKeever cuts down the tackle, and glowering Guard Mike pulls out to lead the interference. "Maybe they'll stop it the first time," says Coach Don Clark. "Maybe the second and the third. But sooner or later they make a mistake-and you just watch...
...raising key professors to senior rank, financing faculty loans and summer fellowships, will set up 15 new professorships and help lure top engineers into teaching. The rest of the money goes into improving curriculums, notably for new programs (at Case, U.C.L.A.) that concentrate on design as a basic engineering discipline. Biggest beneficiary: M.I.T. ($9,275,000), now developing a curriculum focused on science-core courses that cut across traditional departmental lines. Ford thus hopes, explained Foundation President Henry T. Heald, to encourage engineering schools to impart "a thorough understanding of science and mathematics, their frontiers, and how they...
...most sophisticated U.S. satellite, it is crammed with instruments that will chemically identify and count heavy particles of cosmic rays (knowledge that is crucial to manned space flight), study the transfer of heat from tropics to polar regions and from the earth back into space (which is basic to weather forecasting), and carry out other experiments. The satellite is shaped like a gyroscope and is spun to keep it whirling cleanly instead of tumbling. It squeals like a bagpipe as it signals from two transmitters-one powered by a chemical battery, the other solar-powered and possibly could transmit...
...Beltsville substance is so new to chemists that it has not yet been analyzed or even named. But it is a major discovery in basic knowledge, may lead to bigger crops grown faster, and to control over harvesting times. "It's as if we had been hitting a carburetor with a hammer for years in an attempt to adjust it," says Dr. Hendricks. "Discovering this pigment is like learning that a screw on the bottom of the carburetor is what regulates...