Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some critics, notably Cornell Physicist Hans Bethe, a Nobel prizewinner, and Dr. J. P. Ruina, former director of the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency, are more lenient. In testimony last week before the Senate Disarmament Subcommittee, they did not attack Sentinel's basic hardware. Bethe, in fact, called the components "well designed" and said he went along with the idea that Sprints should be used to protect Minuteman sites. Both Ruina and Bethe, however, were particularly critical of Spartan's role...
...ever accused Britain's Prince Philip of reticence. Yet rarely has he ranged as widely and acidly as in an interview with The Director, a London business magazine. On his countrymen's work habits: "The number of people who are actively constructive are minimal compared to the numbers who are just sitting there." On governmental controls: "People will soon need a license to breathe. I know that in Scotland we had to get permission to block up a fireplace in a cottage. It's unbelievable...
...following is a letter from William F. Brazziel, director of General Education at Virginia State College, Norfolk, Va. It was written to the Harvard Education Review in reply to an article by Arthur A. Jensen stating that genetic differences between blacks and whites are the chief cause of the gap between white and black IQs as measured by traditional intelligence tests...
...Social Relations 148 and 149, courses with a combined enrollment of over 900 students. The chairman, Roger Brown, has suggested that the leaders of the two courses, Thomas J. Cottle and Jack Stauder, both assistant professors, apply for General Education sponsorship. But this is hardly any solace. Gen Ed Director Edward T. Wilcox refuses to estimate the chances of the courses' approval under his program. The leaders of Soc Rel 148 and 149 do not think the chances are good...
Whitla, who is also an associate director of Admissions, stressed that there was no connection between the tests and the admissions office. "There would be all kinds of overtones if the results were applied to the College's admissions policy," he said. "In admissions, we are not concerned with a student's political views...