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...President-elect William J. McGill estimated that as many as 50% of all collegians now belong to "an alienated culture, hostile to science and technology, which is growing at a very rapid pace." McGill's solution is to speed up education and get collegians into full-time jobs faster???an effort to promote earlier independence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: When the Young Teach and the Old Learn | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

...Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Johnson Administration adviser on Communist affairs: "What Nixon really needs to do is to convince the public that he actually has a policy." The President's pledge to end the war within three years coincides with Ted Kennedy's own timetable. So if Nixon moves faster???by increasing troop withdrawals, for instance, and putting forward a firmer schedule ?he may well get renewed backing from the large moderate center of M-day supporters. Most of them did not criticize his peace efforts with much vehemence until August, when he delayed the second stage of troop pullbacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: M-DAY'S MESSAGE TO NIXON | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

...Which is faster???the steam or electric locomotive? On the face of the latest returns, the "juice" seems to have it. At Erie, Pa., last week a speed of 105 miles an hour was attained over a short test track by a locomotive built by the General Electric Co. and the American Locomotive Works for the Paris-Orleans Railroad, France. This is the greatest speed ever attained by an electric locomotive, and could just as well have been 125 miles an hour, said officials, if the track had been longer. Steam locomotives have several times attained speeds of from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steam vs. Electricity | 12/17/1923 | See Source »

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