Word: caltech
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...South. Founded only 14 years ago, St. Aug's has also become the Southern supply point of an intellectual underground railroad with branches to all parts of the nation. Last year's seniors won $100,000 in scholarships to schools such as Harvard, Carleton and Caltech (the choice of New Orleans' only Presidential Scholar, St. Aug's Michael Saulny...
Colleges are also getting leary of grades-are-everything competition. The first major school to act is California Institute of Technology, which last week eliminated "freshman grades. Caltech's ferociously smart freshmen will still take exams and do graded homework assignments, but at the end of the freshman year students will simply pass or fail. With grades "unattainable," Faculty Chairman Ernest H. Swift hopes that freshmen "will find it easier to concentrate on the content of their course. This, in turn, may enable them to make more sensible choices as to the investment of their time and energy...
...load 4,000 miles. Thus most major Asian cities-Tokyo, Manila, New Delhi, Bangkok, Rangoon and others-may well find themselves within Red Chinese atomic range some time early in 1965. Peking, moreover, has launched a missile program guided by Chien Hsueh-shen, 52, a 1938 Caltech Ph.D. grad and jet-propulsion specialist. Chien was chief of the rocket section of the U.S. Scientific Commission on National Defense during World War II. In 1950 he was caught trying to slip out of California, bound for Red China. He was finally permitted to leave the U.S. in 1955, surfaced immediately...
...result, at least in part, of the defection of Western-trained scientists from such atomic centers as Caltech and France's Curie Institute, the Chinese have the scientific know-how to continue. Because of Russian aid from 1950 to 1959 (when the Moscow-Peking split first fissured), they also have a network of operating uranium mines, at least four nuclear reactors, a raft of Soviet-trained technicians, and a rudimentary basic industrial plant that can furnish most of the products needed to maintain a small atomic-bomb program...
...Caltech Geochemist Harrison Brown demurs. It is a good bet that populated planets are spotted throughout the universe, says he, and their civilized inhabitants may well be trying to talk to earth...