Word: experimentals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NBC EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 3-4 p.m.). In "Four Days to Omaha," a young man sets out to learn about his dead soldier-father by retracing his foot steps from London to an Omaha Beach cemetery in Normandy.
Giant Crater. In a related experiment, Ponnamperuma and NASA Chemist Fritz Woeller flashed artificial lightning through a mixture of ammonia and methane simulating Jupiter's atmosphere. Besides producing amino acids and other organic materials that have led experimenters to speculate that primitive life could exist in the Jovian atmosphere, the discharges created large quantities of a translucent, ruby-red organic dye. This dye, the scientists speculate, may well explain the mark on Jupiter's surface, 30,000 miles long and 8,000 miles wide, that astronomers call the Great Red Spot...
If their experiment duplicates the conditions on Jupiter, they reason, the Jovian atmosphere may consist largely of red dye material. Because of white clouds of frozen ammonia crystals at the outer fringes of the atmosphere, the red atmosphere is largely invisible from above. But below the red spot, some scientists...
Two recent plans, if fully enacted, would give students more academic responsibility. Fourth-course pass-fail may entice students to experiment in unfamiliar fields. And Master Chalmers has proposed that students should be allowed to devise their own fields of concentration under the direction of an ad hoc committee if...
Parents of Pacific students-most of them affluent Palo Alto professionals-are generally enthusiastic about the school. Educators acquainted with its program are cautiously willing to concede that in some ways it represents a healthy experiment. Berkeley Psychologist Norma Haan thinks Pacific is "realistic about the problems that today'...