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...Caltech well know, nature does not give up her secrets easily. There is, says Carl Anderson, no way to see the atom or examine it at first hand. "It must be studied by indirect evidence, and the technical difficulty involved has been compared to asking a man who has never seen a piano to describe a piano from the sound it would make falling downstairs in the dark." But for all the exacting labor, adds Physicist Feynman, "there is a great thrill - a real emotional thrill - when you discover something interesting." The mission of Caltech: to pass on that sense...
Further information indicated yesterday that the change did not reflect any direct or indirect administration disfavor with the present General Education program, but only a desire to see it represented in the future by a widely recognized scholar and permanent faculty member...
...plot in the end becomes downright hokum-but he offers many fascinating insights: how it feels before a holdup, the psychology of crap shooting, the relaxed domesticity enjoyed by the off-duty criminal. He can also be quietly amusing, as when he compares a detective's carefully indirect questions about a robbery ("I hear some pals stopped in to see you last night") to a modern poet who must find "some oblique and more beautiful way of indicating what he [means] ... He was a good detective, almost as allusive as T. S. Eliot." Ex-Newspaperman Grafton has managed...
Army: "The nuclear weapon," said the white paper, "may discourage overt armed intervention by the Communist powers, such as occurred in Korea . . . but equally, it may encourage the indirect approach through infiltration and subversion." Britain is creating a mobile strategic reserve, ready to be flown from England to any new threatened outpost. The total cost and size of the British army will be substantially reduced...
Notice of the case first came to indirect public attention when the Ivy League Colleges printed brief statements in their alumni magazines of one section of the year-and-a-half-old Ivy Code. This pointed out that any secondary school student who should have all or a part of his education subsidized by an outside group "not closely related to the family" shall be ineligible for intercollegiate athletics (see box). The notice was meant to inform Ivy alumni that a violation had been discovered and acted upon...