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Brazil had little to lose in the try. Roughly equal in size to the U.S., it was still a poor, nonindustrial, coffee-based country after World War II. Now Brazil has a spreading highway net, modernized railroads, more than $1 billion worth of new power dams, improved port facilities, even a $100 million new capital in the interior-Brasilia-that focuses the nation's eyes on the untapped west. Along with this public investment, a private industrial giant has grown up at the lively pace of the sambas that are played in some factories to keep production hopping. Samples...
Stanford already has a linear accelerator 220 ft. long that turns out electrons with 700 million electron volts. The projected two-mile installation is expected to generate electrons with 15 billion volts at the start. Later, the scientists hope, it can be souped up to 40 billion volts. If Congress votes the money which the President wants, the accelerator should go into operation in about six years...
...described by Dr. Kantrowitz last week, Avco's miniature sun is a tube 30 inches long filled with very low-pressure gas. When a 4 billion-watt electrical spark from a bank of condensers is discharged across the end of the tube, the magnetic field that surrounds it should expand-so said Gold's theory-into the tube, pushing the gas ahead of it in a small, tame version of a solar shock wave...
...basic Harris proposition: if college enrollment doubles on schedule in ten to twelve years, to 6,000,000. annual costs will triple to $9 billion, and may be inflation-fueled to $11 billion. Therefore needed: at least $6 billion more yearly...
...Federal Government that is not carrying its load in higher education," Harris said. Example: in the 14 years ending last year, the annual state and local share of U.S. educational expense rose from 24% to 34% ($1.2 billion), while the federal contribution declined from 36% to 15% ($535 million). Harris thinks the federal share should rise by $500 million yearly. With state and local governments chipping in an additional $500 million (perhaps $1 billion "under great pressure"), the total governmental share for colleges could be about $1.5 billion yearly...