Word: ge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fall of 1946 a "guinea pig" group of freshmen and some upperclassmen, along with a few Radcliffe girls tried out the projected GE program. The program proved successful and in 1949 the freshman class was required to take one GE course. In 1950 the freshmen were required to take two courses and in 1951 the full three, spread out over their first two years...
Last week, after a ten-day investigation, the Denver Post not only exposed Newton and his sidekick as phony experts; it also dug up enough evidence to arrest Newton and a man the paper said was his Dr. Gee, Leo Ge Bauer, operator of a small electrical manufacturing shop in Phoenix, Ariz. The charge: Newton and Ge Bauer had fleeced a wealthy rancher out of $34,000 with another "scientific" discovery, a machine that could locate oil or water underground...
Reporter Cahn was still not satisfied. He persuaded the Denver Post to hire him to investigate further. Cahn came across Herman Flader, a Denver grain man and industrialist who said he had dealings with Newton and Ge Bauer in 1949. For $34,000, said Flader. they sold him an interest in three "Doodlebugs," radio-size machines covered with dials and bulbs that lighted up when a Doodlebug detected a well...
Reporter Cahn took the results of his investigation to the police and FBI. Ge Bauer and Newton were quickly picked up and released on bail to await trial for fraud. When police examined a Doodlebug, they found no plutonium, no delicate electronic mechanism. The Doodlebug was just a piece of war-surplus radio equipment that could be bought for $3.50. There had been one slight" change; flashlight batteries had been installed to light up the bulbs when the knobs were turned...
COMMENTS: This course suffers from the basic problem of all elementary GE courses, to wit, that it must try to give the student a technique of analysis within its field without being able to delve too deeply into the field itself. Within this limitation, however, this course was quite well received by '55, which felt that it had received some basic understanding of the techniques of the social sciences from...