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...present is not a good time for planning--either for the individual student or for the university he attends. "Inability to focus on clear-cut goals is probably to some degree a necessary consequence of the partial mobilization of a democratic nation. Objectives can be readily formulated in times of peace or during a total war, but not today. Nevertheless, in each segment of our national life the attempt must be made to new out at least a rough pattern for the future." This idea underlies Mr. Conant's policies, not only within the university, but in his national role...
Both emphasized that the three proposals were completely divorced of Universal Military Training, and were only for a period of partial mobilization...
...Observations will also be made at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, outside "the path of totality." If the instruments prove sensitive enough even in a partial eclipse, the Air Force may face a vast new job of map making. And since guidance systems for intercontinental rockets already threaten to become more accurate than present charts of large sections of the world, new maps are fast becoming a necessity...
Within the next 15 years there will be a score or more solar eclipses, their paths interlacing over the surface of the globe. If the areas of partial eclipse turn out to be useful for measurement, it should be possible to man a network of observation posts during each one. Enough observations, says the Air Force, may eventually produce enough information to change most of the world's atlases...
...building is named for the late Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, father-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who gave the funds for its construction and partial endowment...