Word: scales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Knives & Chains. The trouble is that Pennsylvania is woefully short of facilities for problem children on the scale she envisions. By tossing the kids in jail, Judge Stout has now so dramatized the problem that the state legislature may soon relieve Philadelphia by opening up an old prison and building a new detention center for delinquents. To officials who lament the cost, Judge Stout snaps: "Let them raise taxes. Which is more important: rehabilitation or continued high crime rates...
Confidence in the dollar has ben bolstered temporarily by President Johnson's determination to eliminate the deficit in our balance of payments. But increased gold losses this year may undermine that confidence, inducing foreigners to cash in their dollars on a larger scale. Even departing Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon concedes the desirability of some revision in the present monetary system. When the U.S. "gets into balance," he told the House Banking Committee some weeks ago, "the world will need to consider whether some other form of reserve asset than the dollar will be needed." The gold loss...
...past year, a Harvard graduate student has been experimenting with fire whirls in order to learn how to predict their occurrence and properties. This study, which is being done by Shuh-Jing Ying 4G, working under Howard W. Emmons, Gordon McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering, is the first large scale research on fire whirls. Eventually such research may help fire fighters to eliminate the threat of fire storms and other natural vortexes, like tornadoes and hurricanes...
...currents. He places one or more cans of acetone in the center of the platform and ignites the fuel. When the screen revolves slowly, the draft whips the acetone fires into a whirl up to 18 feet high--only two feet lower than the ceiling of the building. (The scale attained in the New Engineering Sciences Laboratory, which was dedicated in June, 1963, would have been impossible in the old wooden engineering building...
...question was what effect the quake would have on Frei's urgently needed reform program in the areas of land, housing, school and industrial development. In new elections last month, Frei's Christian Democrats won an absolute majority in the Chamber of Deputies and planned a full-scale assault on Chile's ills. They still plan to proceed despite the added burden of digging out from the earthquake...