Word: caltech
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mathematics, kept the story as unboggling for laymen as possible, but did not hesitate to make it fairly technical where necessary. He wrote the article from his own notes, with the help of Researcher Fortunata Sydnor Trapnell and major contributions from TIME bureaus. During an interview with Schmidt at Caltech, Jaroff was especially pleased when the astronomer let TIME in on a secret. "I looked through the microscope at the photo plate showing the latest quasar he discovered," says Jaroff. It is the newest and most dis tant, and our cover story is the first published account of this discovery...
...remained. When optical astronomers turned their huge glass eyes on some of the areas of sky manned by radio astronomers as sources of powerful emissions, they found only assortments of faint, nondescript stars. Then, in 1960, aided by pinpoint data supplied by Cambridge University's radio astronomers, and Caltech's Owens Valley Observatory, Caltech astronomers discovered that one stream of powerful signals was coming from what appeared to be a small, faint star. During the next few years, as radio telescopes continued to supply increasingly precise data, the California astronomers discovered three more faint, mysterious objects. Though they...
...Caltech no longer grades its freshmen at all; they either pass or fail their courses. Princeton lets its undergraduates select four courses on a pass-fail basis, as a result has engineers taking art courses. Beloit lets all students ignore their two lowest grades...
...effect is that the same names keep surfacing in an informal interlocking directorate. Among the chief boards are the National Science Foundation (Hesburgh, Clement, M.I.T.'s Julius Stratton, Bryn Mawr's Katharine McBride), the Rockefeller Foundation (Hesburgh, Goheen, Caltech's Lee DuBridge), the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (Perkins, Goheen, Stratton, Hesburgh, McBride, Minnesota's O. Meredith Wilson, North Carolina's William Friday, U.C.L.A.'s Franklin Murphy, Illinois' David Henry), the Institute of International Education (Wilson, Hesburgh, Murphy, McBride, Henry...
...DuBridge, 60, Caltech. Mild-mannered, soft-spoken and enormously proud of his school, Physicist DuBridge is constantly on the phone as a skilled broker between Caltech's scientific resources and the nation's ever-expanding demands for scientific knowledge. He is an adviser to NASA on manned space flight, a director of National Educational Television and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation...