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This is not the attitude of an educator, but of an administrator; it is the statement of a man who feels that he should react to the inconvenient expressions of undergraduates by preventing them. The university has the right to suspend publication, for it subsidizes the paper, but the function of a university administration is to create an atmosphere in which mistakes may be profitably made, in which doubtful opinions may be expressed, in which bad judgments are also a way of learning. Destruction of such expression is the act of a bureaucracy more concerned with its own comfort than...
...drugs given to House Speaker Sam Rayburn in his last illness. These chemicals were developed in the hope that cancer cells would be fooled into using them instead of normal metabolic building blocks, which they closely resemble. Dr. Kaufman reasoned that cells invaded by viruses might react the same way, and thus be saved from helping the virus to reproduce...
Developing such omnivision is the job of the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD), headquartered in the shadow of Pike's Peak at Colorado Springs. NORAD also must react defensively to what it sees, and give warning to U.S. and Canadian citizens to head for their shelters-if they have any. Established four years ago, NORAD has recently acquired new techniques to meet the growing threats. It can now detect almost anything bigger than a bird in the air over some 15 million sq. mi. from Iceland to Midway...
...same field at different campuses. The nuances are endless. When a dean in sunny Texas asks on the phone, "Is it still sleeting in Chicago?", he may be implying a full-scale job offer. Or he may not; a major gaucherie, of course, is for a professor to react to a feeler that wasn't there...
Plenty of Warning. Northrop scientists began working on VIPS when they discovered that pilots react quickest to spoken commands; even when a pilot is beginning to black out from G forces and can no longer see warning lights, he hears and understands a distinctive voice. A feminine voice was chosen for VIPS to avoid confusion with the voices of other crewmen. The whole system weighs only 8 Ibs., but its quick-acting brain can even assign priorities when several warnings are called for at once. If engine oil is low, Gina's voice reports the problem, but in case...