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...brightest feature of the day for Harvard was the team showing. In the Heps, the order of finish was Army-Navy-Harvard, and the Crimson harriers avenged half that defeat yesterday. Harvard also continued its domination of the Ivy League...
Five times as luminous as a full moon, Ikeya-Seki lived up to its advance billing as one of the brightest comets of the century. Japanese astronomers boast that they snapped the clearest daylight pictures ever taken of a comet. Because of its close brush with the sun, Ikeya-Seki heated to an intensity that was easily recorded in detail by spectrographs, which gave scientists their strongest evidence so far of comet ingredients. Preliminary readings have already detected sodium, ionized calcium, iron, nickel, copper and potassium. Last week James Westfall, a young Caltech scientist, reported that his infrared observations...
...performance is naturally a controversial matter. Many teachers contend that students can be too easily swayed by the showmanship of popular lecturers, who may not, in fact, be on top of their disciplines or who may not demand enough of their students. By limiting teacher appraisal to the brightest graduates, Brewster hopes to get mature, objective judgments. The plan is still subject to full faculty approval-and a lively debate is likely...
President Johnson would never have fired his old friend Reedy, but he did take the occasion of Reedy's departure to upgrade the office of press secretary by appointing Moyers, perhaps his brightest, most trusted young aide, a fellow Texan, an ordained Baptist teacher (not preacher) and, unlike Reedy, a member of the Johnson hierarchy who ranks high enough to participate in top-level policy discussions. As the President obviously figures it, these credentials are more than enough to make up for the fact that Moyers' press experience has been limited, and that he has had almost none...
Many Germans are now also questioning the basic structure of the system. Like most European countries, Germany separates its young by exam at an early age (ten), sending the brightest through the rigorous, classics-oriented Gymnasium and on to the university; the rest attend the Mittelschule or the less exacting Volkschule, both roughly equivalent to American junior high schools. Currently, less than 7% of German youths enter the Gymnasium; in France, by comparison, almost 13% attend the equivalent lycée. Many wonder whether so small a number of high-level graduates can provide the intellectual skills to keep Germany...