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...John Harris Ward, 53, moves in as chairman and chief executive officer of Chicago's Commonwealth Edison Co., the nation's third largest public utility. He succeeds Willis D. Gale, 62, who becomes chairman of the executive committee. Harvard-educated (class of '30), Ward intends to push Commonwealth Edison further into household electric heating and the uses of automated machinery. His reasoning: "The more industry uses these wonderful gadgets, the more electricity is consumed...
...guaranteeing access to it at all times. Russia, exploiting the fear of war, was pursuing a policy by which it hoped to drive the U.S. and the West out of Berlin by weakening the free world's resolve. Thus Nehru's "foul winds" would reach gale proportions only if Khrushchev failed to understand U.S. determination-and there were some Moscow observers who were afraid that he had not seen the storm warnings...
Edward M. Purcell, Gerhard Gale University Professor and a Nobel Prize winner in Physics, spoke on the state of the study of physics around 1936, when physicists thought that they had successfully narrowed down the elementary particles of matter. Since then, new discoveries have made study more complex--the science has opened wide so that any number of paths are possible in the future...
...possible explanation for this malaise is suggested in Mary Ellen Gale's evaluation of Mrs. Mary Bunting's first year at Radcliffe, in Mark Krupnick's discussion of the relationship between a course and its students, and in Jencks' description of the problems of constructing educational policy around the undergraduate. One of Mrs. Bunting's first tasks at Radcliffe was to create "an atmosphere of expectation," a feeling among 'Cliffies that they are closely connected to the University and its faculty. Similarly, in Krupnick's view, most students are now estranged from their courses because of the virtual absence...
...read Stookey's article, however, or Miss Gale's, or Krupnick's, you might begin to feel that the University can, in time, surmount these problems. For Stookey's article indicates the sort of long-range planning that can supplant the stop-gap measures popular at present; Krupnick's proposes a change in the administration of courses that could provide the undergraduate with greater insight into (and interest in) the process of education; and Miss Gale's shows that an administration can go a long way toward creating the essential "atmosphere of expectation...