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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Part of the Kit. For decades, M.I.T. was famed as the leader in nuts-and-bolts engineering education. But today its emphasis has turned from teaching how to build bigger bridges or better mousetraps, and has come to stress basic science. "Educating a person for a current technology or a current art just doesn't make sense any more," says Professor Ascher Shapiro. Referring to his own field of mechanical engineering, he explains: "Now we are concentrating less on the technological art and more on engineering science: thermo dynamics, flow dynamics, electromagnetic theory-things which will be part...
Assistant Professor Richard Thornton has still another method of teaching do-it-yourself science in his electrical engineering classes. He created a kit for his students consisting of a plastic pegboard and a plastic box full of tiny parts-200 resistors, 50 capacitors, 6 transistors, etc. About the size of a thin textbook, the kit costs $25-and with it several students, working together in their dormitory, can fashion such things as a digital computer or an elementary TV system...
...thank God - and with all reverence, thank you, Mr. President, for the farm message you sent us today." Some other remarks were less ecstatic. "Nebulous and rather complicated." sniffed Louisiana's Allen Ellender, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. "A do-it-yourself kit for every farm commodity." hooted Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen of Illinois: the executive branch "could completely divest itself of all responsibility." Argued Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken: "If farm groups can write their own tickets, some will ask: Why not let labor or industrial groups do the same thing?" Moving Again...
...discovered that Americans want economy all right-but are willing to pay any price to get it. Nearly 30% of the regular Falcon's customers, for example, insist on a 100-h.p. engine instead of the standard 85-h.p.; 50% want white sidewalls, 68% want the "trim kit"-extra chrome on the outside, pleated nylon on the inside...
...studies in understatement. Only a few days before, it had been revealed that little Laurie Ann. the Karrs' tot, was suffering from a hitherto unknown disease called paranucleosis, and couid be snatched from death only by miracle brain surgery. Alas, the master surgeon had hung up his trephining kit; his nerves had been shattered since his own daughter died under his scalpel...