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...efficiency, perhaps even a handicap in the race for national survival. In a bracing new book on Congress and the American Tradition (Henry Regnery; $6.50), a conservative political philosopher speaks up this week in Congress' defense. The defender: muscular-minded James Burnham, 53, former New York University philosophy professor who made a still-rippling intellectual splash back in 1941 with The Managerial Revolution...
...theory that led to the experiment goes back to 1953, when British Cosmologist Thomas Gold suggested that the initial pulse from the sun might be a shock wave analogous to the shock wave produced in air by a plane breaking through the sound barrier. Professor Gold knew that gas in interplanetary space is too thin to carry ordinary shock waves, which propagate by gas molecules bumping against each other. But solar shock waves, he argued, are different. They are caused by solar magnetic fields expanding suddenly into space and pushing ionized gas ahead of them. "It is a bit like...
Merle Fainsod, professor of Government, has received the annual Faculty Prize of the Harvard University Press. The award, presented by President Pusey at a Faculty Club luncheon yesterday, was for Fainsod's recent book Smolensk under Sovlet Rule...
Honorable mention for the Faculty prize was awarded to On Translation, a collection of 17 papers discussing the aspects and problems of translations. Edited by Reuben A. Brower, professor of English, the book is one of the Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature...
Richard R. Baxter, assistant professor of Law, will become a full professor on July 1. Considered an authority on international law, Baxter is former chief of the international law branch of the Army Judge Advocate General's office...