Word: majority
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...research funds of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration were left almost intact, but NASA's support of graduate students was almost abandoned. NASA offered 1,335 new fellowships in 1966, but only about 45 this year. The U.S. Office of Education, which had hoped to begin major demonstration projects in new teaching techniques, saw its request slashed by more than $50 million. Its support of educational research at universities was cut from $17.1 million to $12.3 million...
Military Salesmanship. Educators are particularly concerned about congressional preference for applied research aimed at quick results, as against basic research, which may have no immediately demonstrable value. Congress barely touched the $1.1 billion research program of the National Institutes of Health, most of which is aimed at solving major medical problems. It actually added $48 million to the $137 million worth of academic-research projects sponsored by the Department of Defense, which has little difficulty in selling its military studies to the Houseof Representatives. Such work, however, is losing its allure on campus. Many scholars dislike the enforced secrecy...
FORTUNE was started by Luce in 1930, at the beginning of the Depression. In its early years, it was a hotbed of contentious comment. "We made the discovery," said Luce, "that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers." One of the major contributors to FORTUNE was a poet, Archibald MacLeish. "My essential education as an American began on FORTUNE," he said later. The magazine subjected U.S. business to the kind of critical scrutiny it had never undergone before. FORTUNE tended to be liberal; TIME was widely suspected of being rightist. TIME, indeed...
...developing nations throughout the world, domestic car production is a foremost symbol of industrial coming-of-age. As a result, the list of auto-producing countries is lengthening, even if many of them make cars only under license with the major manufacturers in other nations. Such arrangements vary widely, from mere final assembly of a vehicle to the production of most parts locally. Manufacturers' labels are often misleading. The Nasr (Victory) sedans of the U.A.R., for example, are in fact Fiats assembled in Cairo. Some countries-for one, Red China, which makes passenger cars named Red Flag and Phoenix...
...month. Often their "airstrips" are barely that-for example, at Nui Sap the strip is a 60-ft.-wide dike top that stretches for 960 ft. between two paddyfields. There are V.C. potshotters on the ground, swarms of U.S. fighters, transports, helicopters and spotter planes in the air. "Our major hazard," complains Chief Pilot Ed Dearborn, "is overcrowded airways, not the enemy." So far, the CAS has lost only one plane, a small Beechcraft that crashed while landing in the prop wash of a big transport...