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...They also point out that most such projects have many nonclassified aspects that provide valuable training for Ph.D. candidates. At Michigan, for example, classified electronics research has produced at least 30 doctorates. There is also considerable nonmilitary fallout from secret work. A 26-acre antenna built at Stanford to help the U.S. learn how to detect enemy missile launches was used by Stanford Electrical Engineer Von R. Eshleman to bounce the first radar signals off the sun.* Classified research at Michigan helped Emmett N. Leith develop the new science of holography (see SCIENCE), which uses laser light to produce three...
...find out how to protect U.S. civilians against attack from an enemy using them. "It is not safe for the U.S. to be ignorant of these powerful weapons," argues Penn Biochemist Knut A. Krieger, who directed the studies. Villard points out that secret anti-missile work is intended to help maintain the nuclear stalemate-which is the present best guarantee for peace...
...Indicating another way that military projects can help academic research, the State University of New York last week bought two $8,500,000 surplus Atlas missile silos for $667 each. SUNY will use the silos to study the effects of cosmic rays on the aging of fruit flies and white rats. The Government has sold eight other surplus missile sites to educational institutions including Kansas State and Colorado State universities...
...Philby may not have done Britain-or the U.S.-much good in the 34 years he served as a Soviet spy, but he certainly has been a big help to London's Sunday newspapers. For five straight weeks the Sunday Times and the Observer have battled to see which could produce the most titillating details about the master spy. What did Philby like to drink? (Raki, a Turkish liqueur.) What were his favorite jokes? (Dirty.) Why did he stammer? (Suppressed violence.) That and much more came out in the kind of competition the so-called "quality" press has seldom...
...competition began prematurely. The Observer's Middle East Correspondent Patrick Scale, who replaced Philby when he defected to Russia in 1963, had been working on the story for four years with the help of Philby's ex-wife Eleanor. Publication was still months away when the Observer learned that Roy Thomson's revitalized Sunday Times had dispatched a ten-man team to get the story. To beat the Times to the punch, the Observer slipped in its first Philby installment on Oct. 1. As soon as they caught sight of the edition, the Times editors replated...