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Thousands of foreigners will soon be learning English as it is spoken at Harvard. Under a grant from the Ford Foundation, the Language Research Center is producing a filmed course in Basic English here...
...course, using the "Language Through Pictures" method developed by I. A. Richards, University Professor, and Christine M. Gibson, research associate in Education, is designed especially for use in underdeveloped countries, where teaching man-power is limited. It can be used either as a supplement to a regular course or by itself...
Controlled nuclear fusion may be farther away than had been hoped. Last week Dr. B.FJ. Schonland, director of Britain's Atomic Energy Research Establishment, announced that the neutrons emitted from the famous ZETA fusion apparatus (TIME, Feb. 3) did not come from fusion of heavy hydrogen atoms at uniform high temperature. As the U.S.'s Atomic Energy Commission had indicated, they were apparently a result of collisions of high-velocity atoms with low-velocity ones. Experts in fusion techniques do not class this action as real thermonuclear fusion...
...earth, and U.S. authorities do not agree about this detail. Major General John B. Medaris, the Army's missile chief, says that the booster of Sputnik III would need 500,000 Ibs. of thrust. Dr. Herbert York, chief scientist of the Defense Department's Advance Research Projects Agency, thinks that as little as 200,000 Ibs. might be enough. German-born Dr. Walter R. Dornberger, of Bell Aircraft Corp., compromises for 440,000 Ibs. This is not far above the thrust (360,000 Ibs.) of the Air Force's still unproven Atlas and Titan missiles...
...vaccine, got its vaccine at 30? to 35? per dose. But this bore no relation to costs. The foundation drove a hard bargain because it had guaranteed to buy the vaccine even before it knew the vaccine was successful, had poured $22.4 million into 17 years of research that produced the vaccine...