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...them, Bierweiler patiently explained that the models were not meant to be decorative curiosities; rather, they were exact replicas of representative plants intended as a lifelike guide to botanical taxonomy. Higher plants are classified according to the nature of their flowering parts, but real plants have an infuriating habit of seldom blooming at the convenience of the people who study them. The 847 hand-molded Glass Flowers were an excellent solution to this difficulty and still remain invaluable as teaching aids...
...subsequent squabbling in the Faculty is that the Faculty is incompetent to deal with questions of education. In an era in which the challenge facing education in a democracy is to combine the political role of citizen with the social role of technocrat, a body committed to narrowness by habit and inclination should be the last source from which help is sought. The Faculty as individuals have long since abandoned a real commitment to the broad concept of the educated...
...Deplored Habit. Ultimately the Smith syndicate made a deal with the German magazine Der Stern, which obtained first publication rights for some $3,500, and other sales abroad brought the total above $12,000. Der Stern last week published excerpts from the essays, which sounded pretty much like the sort of thing most fond parents of teen-agers are familiar with. But there was a special approach to some subject matter. Writing on democracy, the prince noted a little uneasily that it means giving "equal voting power to people haying unequal ability to think." He also deplored the habit...
...scientists at Du Pont's Experimental Station first found a way to duplicate leather's "breathability" by impregnating plastic material with threadlike fibers-and then dissolving the fibers. Then, as is its habit, Du Pont generated an internal competition by pitting two of its departments against each other in a battle that raged for two years amid warlike secrecy. In 1955 the fabrics and finishes department devised a mixture of tough polyurethane and resilient polyester fibers that most suitably duplicated leather's qualities. Du Pont's top-strategy Executive Committee gave the go-ahead for what...
...such objections are out of date, insists U.T.C.'s Ordahl. He admits that early hybrids spat unburned propellants out their nozzles, but he claims that the habit has been cured by baffles that keep the propellants from escaping before they have mixed and burned. Baffles and other improvements, says Ordahl, have boosted combustion efficiency to 90% in some U.T.C. hybrids. Aerojet-General Corp. has a different kind of baffle that is said to get 95% . The Reaction Motors Division of Thiokol Chemical Corp. believes that good burning under variable conditions can best be had by injecting extra oxidizer near...