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...morning, anxious to hurry over for good seats at Aldrich-Dexter Field. Unfortunately for gridiron players, the soccer team plays at that field. There's no soccer game this morning, so before the freshman class and the Brown band, which gets credit for being there, the Bruins begin a rebuilding year. Brown is always rebuilding, and they usually rebuild to the tune of two victories. This is one of them...
CAPITAL LAG. Once the world's most modern industrial nation, the U.S. has lost that distinction-at least in such industries as steel and shipbuilding-to countries that had to rebuild almost totally after World War II. Moreover, the rate of increase in U.S. industry's investment in research and development is at least being matched by competitors, especially Japan...
...year-old, $168 million generator keeps breaking down because she simply is too big and too complicated. After the 1970 trip-out, for example, engineers had to remove each of the 188,000 layers of sheet iron composing Allis' 325-ton stator, which surrounds the rotor, then rebuild the stator in an air-conditioned, dust-free enclosure, because of the sensitivity of the equipment...
Elon uneasily savors the saying of the founding fathers: "We came to rebuild the land and to be rebuilt by it." But what the result has been, Elon is not sure. Like an American, he likes to reassure himself that "everything is still fluid." But also like an American, he realizes that the question is no longer: Can his people survive their enemies? The question is: Can they survive themselves...
Forbidden by the American-imposed constitution to buy modern weaponry, Japan has been able to concentrate investment on automated industry. The destruction of its factories by wartime bombing left it free to rebuild with the latest technology. To do that quickly, the new industrialists bought patents and licenses from everywhere. Says Shigeo Nagano, chairman of Nippon Steel, which today produces more tonnage than any other company in the world: "So long as we had to start from nothing, we wanted the most modern plant. We selected the cream of the world's technology. We learned from America, Germany. Austria...