Word: musts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dwellers in the academic world must beware of "chauvinism of the academy." A good cure, Riesman suggests, is a sabbatical tour of duty in business or Government. For all that, there are rewards for men and women obstinately bent on becoming professors: "In my own observation academic people stay alive longer than most professional people-alive in terms of openness of mind and not merely of drive and energy...
...Harvard University, which must bag some $27,000,000 more by June to meet the $82,500,000 goal of its Program for Harvard College (TIME, Nov. 26, 1956), came the largest gift so far from an individual donor: $2,000,000 for scholarships. The anonymous giver, who went through Harvard on a scholarship, regards the huge sum, said President Nathan M. Pusey, as "only partial payment" for his education. To other men of parts who once had scholarships, Pusey observed that the college needs more such partial payments...
Many an unprepared radio listener must have wondered one night this week if he had inadvertently tuned in the private wave length of the vice squad. "I have accounts with manufacturers." a girl was saying in a nasal, defensive tone. "The manufacturer himself calls me directly. I get in contact with two or three of my girl friends, and we discuss the terms. Usually they want a guarantee of $100-more if we give more considerations...
...compromise did not go all the way in accepting the argument of Democratic Senator Clinton P. Anderson, chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, and others that many of the cost problems in building commercial atomic reactors are directly due to inherent bigness. Anderson contends that the Government must pay a big part of the cost in the transition from pilot models to full-scale plants because private industry cannot afford the huge costs in researching and developing the different techniques and materials involved. Against this view, the report argues that the Government gets more for its money...
...world," and he is determined to win a place on the planets for his company. A tireless worker (eleven hours a day, six days a week) and an omnivorous reader, he devours everything on space he can find, scans every proposal in such microscopic detail that section chiefs must bring along their junior engineers to answer his pinpoint questions...