Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most U.S. campuses reported a lull on the peace front last week. Combat was light and scattered; it was a time for R & R between Viet Nam protests. While some participants in the Oct. 15 Moratorium concentrated on classwork, others planned for the Nov. 15 march on Washington. Even so, a few campuses had troubles that seemed big to them if not to headline writers. Items: >At Vassar College, about 30 black women students seized part of the administration building at 3:20 a.m., locked themselves inside and vowed to "stop the school" until their demands for a black-studies...
...VTOLs would be used mainly for "repressing domestic insurgency in countries subject to our influence or control." Another problem, not answered by the panel: Would there be time to develop a prototype weapons system during the "grave national emergency" that the panel majority agreed would justify such work? An even more fundamental question is whether the labs can raise enough money for domestic and social-research projects to shift significantly away from military work. Administrators agree that the money will have to come from Washington. With the Nixon Administration in a budget-cutting mood, there are grounds for doubt that...
...quarks" (from James Joyce's cryptic line in Finnegans Wake: "Three quarks for Muster Mark!"). Gell-Mann cautioned that quarks might not exist outside his equations, but an Australian researcher recently reported finding them among the debris of atmospheric atoms broken up by cosmic rays (TIME, Sept. 12). Even if quarks are only a mathematical fiction, however, there is no doubt that their creator has brought man closer than ever to a fundamental understanding of matter...
Beset by belligerent enemies, Israel has put its scientists and engineers to work overtime on defense projects. It already produces 95% of its own ammunition, and soon may even make its own nuclear weapons. For all their military efforts, however, Israeli scientists have not ignored peaceful research. They have developed new irrigation techniques, tapped solar energy, bred deep-sea fish in captivity and even solved the riddle of how the camel stores water (in the bloodstream). As the late Chaim Weizmann, Israel's first President, once explained: "Of course, miracles happen, but it needs hard work to make them...
...marking its 25th anniversary, the Weizmann Institute for Science has grown from an obscure agriculture station in the desert town of Rehovot, 15 miles south of Tel Aviv, to a 250-acre complex with 17 major departments that explore everything from atomic physics and molecular biology to seismology. Even the Arabs recognize its importance. It was one of the first targets that Radio Cairo claimed had been destroyed during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war-though not a single Egyptian plane ever appeared over Rehovot...