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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Education. For decades, wealthy Commonwealth students have journeyed to Britain's great schools and universities for their education. Since the war, a growing number of scholarships has enabled the poorest and brightest youths to make the journey, boosted the number of Commonwealth students in Britain from 1,000 to 40,000. More and more English students are traveling to study in the Commonwealth, contributing to the interchange of ideas and techniques...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: TIES BOTH MAGIC & MATERIAL | 9/21/1962 | See Source »

Conceding the necessity of spending for sheer survival, corporate executives nonetheless complain that the brightest young scientists are flocking into Government-guided work instead of into what Zenith Radio President J. S. Wright calls "the mundane world of household goods." Not only are the glamorous frontier technologies more challenging to inventors, but they are also more rewarding because of generous Government cost-plus contracts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of Business: Where Are the Tinkerers? | 9/21/1962 | See Source »

...Their Senate future appears brightest. They do not expect to lose any seats, and may even pick up a couple. Their highest hopes are in South Dakota, where G.O.P. Incumbent Joseph Bottum is challenged by former Food-for-Peace Director George McGovern, and in Wisconsin, where aging Republican Alexander Wiley is up against retiring Governor Gaylord Nelson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: Wrong Climate | 8/31/1962 | See Source »

...defense prime contracts (against 9.5% in 1951-53)-Illinois got 2%. The seaboard centers have been a magnet in a selective sense−the populations flocking to California are not merely the sun-seeking oldsters, and certainly not the Okies of the 1930s, but often the youngest and brightest, most proficient and promising, most ambitious and adventurous. The more daring the project, the more attracted they are; and before man reaches the moon (see cover story), the effort to get him there is relocating a lot of people here on earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trends: Changing the Map | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

Intellectual Horsepower. With $100,000 from the Ford Foundation, Warren in 1958 launched a six-week cram school for 100 of the state's brightest boys. (Girls came in last year.) The idea: douse them in a year's worth of courses unavailable in their own schools-and in a high-octane intellectual atmosphere where the gifted could feel free to compete as hard as possible. This summer's 103 boys and 55 girls were culled from the top 5% of their classes after interviews with Director R. Philip Hugny, a onetime teacher at Rutgers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Strangers at St. Paul's | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

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