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At present 80 per cent of the students at Oxford and Cambridge rely on financial aid from government grants, while the figure ten years ago was only 30 per cent, Laslett stated. In addition, he noted, universities are equally dependent on support from the government's University Grants Commission to...
Radioactivity has been found before on Air Force jets, the Atomic Energy Commission admitted, but this was the first time that a commercial jet had been involved. The amount of contamination was not considered large enough to present any threats to passengers, but might endanger mechanics who were exposed to...
...policies of the Atomic Energy Commission don't even get a fair trial any more--so, at least, claimed Commissioner John McCone, who said that his proposals were attacked by Congressional Democrats before they had even heard them. But if such attacks are unfair, their foundation is at least understandable: despite his resignation, the image of ex-Commissioner Lewis Strauss still looms large in Congress's picture...
Aside from the Dixon-Yates affair, the Commission made an unfortunate mark on two major fronts during Strauss's administration: it attempted to conceal the detection of a nuclear explosion so that its stand against banning tests would be stronger, and, so critics claimed, its stand on maximum "safe" radiation...
The lesson is one which Congress might do well to apply to the entire AEC. Although the proposal that civilian radiation safety measures should be moved out of the Commission seems a minor one, it is actually a major step in the right direction. If adopted, the change would be...