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Peking did not mention that 74 of Red China's top scientists and engineers hold degrees from American universities. Indeed, the chief of Peking's missile development program, Dr. Tsien Hsue-shen, 57, was once Goddard Professor of Jet Propulsion at Caltech. A graduate of Shanghai's Chiaotung University, Tsien came to the U.S. in 1935 as a mechanical engineer, won a master's degree at M.I.T. the next year, then went on to Caltech. Commissioned a colonel in the Air Force during World War II, he headed a brain trust in Germany...
Like many scientists before him, Caltech Graduate Student Thomas McCord was searching for other answers when he made his unexpected discovery. Curious about the odd behavior of the planet Neptune's two moons, Triton and Nereid, he set out to make a mathematical analysis of their unusual orbits. Last week in the Astronomical Journal, he reported that his two-year, computer-aided investigation had not only accounted for the current state of the Neptunian satellites but had also given him a startling glimpse into the future: Triton, largest of the two moons, is doomed to smash into Neptune...
After fitting a 24-inch telescope with a sensitive infra-red detector, the Caltech scientists trained it on the comet for 19 days during its passage around the sun. Their first temperature measurement-700° F.-was made when Ikeya-Seki came within 45 million miles of the sun and heated up enough for its infra-red emissions to be picked up on earth. As the comet raced closer to the sun, its temperature climbed gradually, reaching 1,200° F. about 20 million miles from the solar surface. Then the comet's emissions were blotted...
...COMMUNISM: "There is no need to fight Communism as an economic system-it is failing in Russia; it is failing in China. Marx has been and is a terrible handicap to these nations."-retired Ford Motor Co. Vice President Theodore Yntema at Caltech...
...about understanding the physical world. This is the overpowering fact of modern times-the most important development in 100,000 years of human existence. And the higher-education program that doesn't recognize this is as inadequate as the elementary schools that fail to teach the three Rs."-Caltech President Lee DuBridge at Cornell College, Iowa...