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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...especially against the included affidavit requirement have been thoroughly presented. In outline, opponents of the oath contend the following: First, loyalty affidavits are useless, since true conspirators would not hesitate to sign them; second, the oath and affidavit single out the academic profession and young students as a group whose loyalty is suspect; third, the affidavit is dangerously vague and demands that applicants for funds must have beliefs that conform to an undefined and variable norm of safe political thinking. Finally, the affidavit and oath serve as dangerous precedent for burdening future governmental aid to education with political strictures. Harvard...
...both individual and group conferences, the subjects discuss the factors behind delinquency and other topics that lead them toward a clearer understanding of themselves. Boys get into trouble, one subject stated, "because they have no money and no one will give them any money so they go out and steal and so it ends up into trouble and they get put in jail." Another subject noted, "In my short period attending here so far, I have never since I can remember, felt greater mentally...
...firmly believe that the imposition of these two oaths, but particularly the disclaimer clause, strongly infers, first, that American institutions of higher learning have not fulfilled their centuries-old responsibility to select and and support students of loyalty and integrity, and second, that American college students, as a group, are particularly suspect of disloyalty as opposed to the general citizenry...
Like other famed rocket labs, e.g., Germany's Peenemünde, J.P.L. was founded by eager amateurs. In the middle 1930s, Aerodynamicist Theodore von Karman encouraged a group of Caltech students to design high-altitude sounding rockets. For a while they had no money except what they could spare from their own pockets, but in 1937 a meteorology student named Weld Arnold offered to raise $1,000. Says Dr. Frank J. Malina, one of the original rocketeers: "Arnold was a very quiet person who came and went in a mysterious way. He told me he lived in Burbank...
...water, which acts not only as coolant and moderator but also shields its human operators from radioactivity. In the spring of 1958, physicists peering down through it saw that the water was getting cloudy. They called Chemist-Bacteriologist Eric B. Fowler of the laboratory's radioactive-waste disposal group, who found that it was swarming with microorganisms, about i billion per quart. The bugs turned out to be rod-shaped bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas, which were feeding on resin and felt in the water purifying system...