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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...example is the senior-year aerodynamics course taught by Associate Professor Erik Mollö-Christensen. First, Mollö-Christensen holds a lottery, and the number each student draws corresponds to something in the lab-a piece of wire, a piece of plastic tubing or of plywood. Working in pairs, the students are required to determine the modulus of elasticity of the material they drew. Two students, working with a piece of brass, determined its elasticity by measuring the speed at which sound passed along it. Explains Mollö-Christensen: "They can do it any way they want to-so long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: This Is M.I.T. | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

Poet (and "Mature Bohemian") Ken neth Rexroth, 55, who wrote the libretto, knew that it was "potentially full of corn." but did it because "I'm kind of tired of Freud and Jung in ballet." Adds Director Lew Christensen of the San Francisco Ballet: "It's a good story, and the audience is not belabored with reading pro gram notes to find out what's going on." As the ballet opens, a spinning sun swirling over a landscape like a moon crater gives way to a lush Garden of Eden where two angels. Raphael and Lucifer, poke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In the Garden | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

Only the music, watered-down jazz composed by the Modern Jazz Quartet's John Lewis, is static. Christensen, however, likes it. "We wanted jazz in the proper element." he says. "The Creation does seem to work in nicely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In the Garden | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...rabbit hunting on the high plains near his home in Powell, Wyo. when one of his high school classmates accidentally plugged him in the back. The .22-cal. slug slammed into his left shoulder, about three in. left of his spine. At War Memorial Hospital, the family doctor, Ray Christensen, found that Bruce's left lung had been punctured. He put a tube into the boy's chest, drew off blood and reinflated the lung. But Dr. Christensen, to his puzzlement, could not find the bullet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: . . . It Comes Out Here | 2/10/1961 | See Source »

...LINDA CHRISTENSEN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 13, 1961 | 1/13/1961 | See Source »

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