Word: caltech
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Died. Clark Blanchard Millikan, 62, California Institute of Technology aeronautics professor, a leading pioneer in wind-tunnel research and recipient, with his late father, Caltech Head Dr. Robert A. Millikan, of a 1949 Presidential Medal for Merit for their contribution to the development of the jet-assisted take-off rocket (1941) and the U.S.'s first successful high-altitude sounding rocket (the 1945 WAC Corporal); of congestive heart failure, in Pasadena, Calif...
...surface. To avoid similar celestial contamination that might obscure or alternative life forms before they are identified and studied, both U.S. and Soviet scientists plan to give future unmanned planetary probes a thorough cleansing before they leave the earth. At a conference on spacecraft sterilization sponsored by NASA at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, scientists explained how the chances of contaminating Mars will be reduced to less than 1 in 10,000 when the Voyager spacecraft makes a soft Martian landing...
Scientists at both NASA and Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is building Surveyor, the first U.S. lunar soft-landing vehicle, remain skeptical of Barringer's theory. They say it is still largely conjecture. But it is conjecture that has made the problems of radar transparency a vital concern in the design of a sophisticated Surveyor altimeter that should have no trouble distinguishing the true surface of the moon...
...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 of Ikeya-Seki were probably the first ever made of a comet. He is certain that the infrared emissions came from the comet itself and were not reflected sunlight. Analysis of this data should give scientists a better understanding of the structure and composition...
...whole generation is being sacrificed!" complains Critic Paul Goodman, who is the current idol of campus rebels. "The schools have become a universal trap" in which "there is so much sitting in a box facing front, manipulating symbols at the direction of distant administrators." Yes, concedes Caltech President Lee A. DuBridge, "We are in trouble-deep trouble." But, he adds, it is not the fault of the schools. "We are expecting too much of our schools and too fast." Emphatically no, declares Admiral Hyman Rickover, the foremost gadfly in the groves of academe. "We have the slowest-moving school system...