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...engineering schools are often criticized for being behind the scientific times; their enrollments have stagnated. This week the Ford Foundation, which overlooked the field up to now, marched in with a massive $19.05 million gift to four institutes of technology (Caltech, Carnegie, Case, M.I.T.) and six universities (U.C.L.A., Michigan, Illinois, Purdue, Stanford, Wisconsin). The goal: a sharp boost for pace setters, and so for all U.S. engineering schools...
...Times's readers are exacting. From sobering experience, the Times's Executive Editor Thomas C. Harris, 51, has learned that the green benches lining Central Avenue are crowded with retired authorities from every imaginable-field, all vigilant to catch the Times in error. Running a filler item on annual steel production in the U.S., the Times misquoted a single digit; five readers called in triumphantly with the correction. When an ad erroneously quoted a can of tuna at 7? instead of 17?, penny-watching pensioners bought 6,960 cans in six hours; the store billed the Times...
...owns 400 acres near Grand Ridge, opened wide the throttle of his big International tractor and roared into a 20-acre cornfield. The three heads on his $2,400 corn picker attacked the tall standing rows of corn. Long before Farmer Landers had made even one turn around the field, the trailer hitched to his tractor was overflowing with fat, golden ears. His expected yield: 90 bu. to the acre, v. less than 60 last year...
Other possible recipients of this year's physics prize are James Van Allen of Iowa State University, and Hermann Oberth, of Germany. Van Allen developed the cosmic ray detection apparatus used in Explorer I, the first American artificial satellite, while Oberth's work is in the field of rocketry...
...usual fanatically tough line up front, Dartmouth was clearly the superior team. With the added advantage of having the heavy 25-mile-per-hour wind at their backs for three quarters of the game, Dartmouth handily managed to put over a second period touchdown and a fourth period field goal...