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¶ Carl Lyngholm, 17, reads elementary Russian, plays first clarinet in the San Diego Civic Youth Orchestra, and likes most subjects at San Diego high school except something called "basic citizenship." He won third prize ($5,000) for a study of an exotic mathematical bypath, Boolean algebra.
Ultrasonic machines are used for hospital and industrial cleaning and degreasing. They can join metals previously impossible to weld or solder, drill square and other odd-shaped holes in brittle materials, such as germanium and glass. They will measure any liquid, including exotic jet fuels, and liquid oxygen in rockets...
Between meetings, the two Presidents entertained each other at local night clubs (the only facilities available for big-scale entertaining), were joined on one occasion by Britain's former Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden, who is visiting Acapulco for his health. President Eisenhower got the full tourist treatment: brilliant...
The Advocate has a number of interesting critical tenets. To qualify as an Advocate editor, a young man chooses as parents second-generation nouveaux, preferably the youngest and thus farthest removed progeny of a robber baron. After acquiring a Swiss governess and later a secondary school education in Paris, our...
Behind this report, of course, is the idea that responsible Americans of the future will have to make important decisions involved with the complexity of modern life, and since science plays such a decisive role in this complex, it follows that educated men should know something about science. Unfortunately, however...