Word: scopes
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Oppenheimer set up a director's fund that has provided short-term professorships for such untypical Institute intellectuals as Critic Kenneth Burke and Psychologist Jerome Bruner. But Oppenheimer has resisted pressure to broaden the Institute's scope with the argument that it is better to do a few things well. Justifiably, he can claim that the Institute has achieved "massive preeminence" in theoretical mathematics. It was at the Institute that Von Neumann developed his games theory, and his speculations on programming, which proved essential to the development of the computer. Hermann Weyl polished his "group representations" approach...
...SCOPE (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Viet Nam's effect on a small town is studied in "War Comes to Main Street." In Dodge City, Kans. (pop. 13,704), draft cards are not for burning. Among those voicing the community's almost unanimous support for President Johnson's policy: the president of a local Catholic college, an Episcopal minister, the editor of the town paper, a bank president, a county agent and some students...
This week's story, written by Robert Jones and edited by Edward Hughes, focuses on le grand Charles's trip to the Soviet Union, but reaches well beyond for a much wider scope. In TIME'S pattern and practice, it is what the French call a tour d'horizon. At a time when the policies and programs of nations East and West are undergoing great if often subtle change, it studies the meaning and thrust of these new forces and explores the Gaullist question of whether an era is approaching that may see all Europe...
...course. But there are worse literary crimes than that. Clavell's book can claim kinship to those wonderful lithographs of the Battle of the Little Bighorn that once decorated every barroom. It isn't art and it isn't truth. But its very energy and scope command...
Later in the year, RGA concerned itself with the question of allowing girls to live in their own apartments. When members of the Administration hinted that perhaps this issue was not within the scope of RGA's powers, the matter was sent to the Deans for consideration. This Fall, the Deans sent back their proposal -- twenty girls would be selected on an experimental basis to live on their own. They would all have to be seniors over twenty-one. Although the Deans merely requested a "feeling of the meeting," members of the legislature sent back suggestions -- perhaps twenty...