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...studios in Roxbury, Conn., and Saché, France, Calder builds up his balanced mobiles by trial and tumble. Says he: "It's like making a patchwork quilt. You can't predict." A mobile can be tiny as a hummingbird; others are so outsize that airports find them favorite lobby decor. One stabile, his Teodelapio in Spoleto, Italy, is the largest metal sculpture in modern times; it is 59 ft. high, weighs 30 tons, and trucks can pass underneath it. "If it's impeccable," he says, "it can be made into any scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Toys for All Ages | 11/20/1964 | See Source »

Ford said he was "pretty sure" that the Faculty would want to modify some features of the Gen Ed program, "although I wouldn't want to predict which...

Author: By Martin S. Levine, | Title: Dean Ford Foresees Some Alterations In Doty Report's Proposals on Gen Ed | 11/19/1964 | See Source »

Though he stated that the future course of science is very difficult to predict, Asimov nevertheless ventured that "one possibility is an advance in a surefire and simple method of contraception. If it comes at all, it had better come fast," he added, referring to the population explosion as another threat to scientific advance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Asimov Suggests Science of Data | 11/16/1964 | See Source »

According to Dean K. Whitla, Director of the Office of Tests, to get a 1.4 rating a student must "rank first in a class of about 1000 and have all 800 board scores. So it's obvious that we seldom predict a boy for group...

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: PRL--The Secret Summary of Every Harvard Man's Intellectual Status | 11/16/1964 | See Source »

...curiosity of the formula is the omission of the College Board mathematical aptitude score, considered very important by most high school advisors. Whitla said that the score is left out because experiments have shown that including it does not in crease the PRL formula's ability to predict...

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: PRL--The Secret Summary of Every Harvard Man's Intellectual Status | 11/16/1964 | See Source »

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