Word: shifted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shift? Sihanouk is determined to ensure neutral Cambodia's survival, and he expects a unified, and probably Communist government in Viet Nam in the not too distant future. Traditionally, a strong Viet Nam has always meant trouble for Cambodia, and the Prince is now swinging toward the U.S. in order to preserve a counterweight to what he sees as the coming threat from the East. Thus the kindnesses toward the eleven G.I.s, whom Sihanouk seems increasingly eager to hand over. "Their stay is too expensive," he joked last week. "I have to pay for many good lunches for them...
Making Money. Ridgeway is even harsher in his judgment of the company of scholars. He agrees that there has been too large a shift into research. But what bothers him even more is the ethics of certain connections between the university and private industry or Government. Far too many professors, he says, are on corporate payrolls, turning out studies concerned with lobbying or product promotion rather than the advancement of knowledge...
...traditionalist who feels that "the university is an institution transcending time and geography." He is distressed because too many academic institutions have become too involved with contemporary problems, too influenced by a misguided zeal for community service. The trouble, Barzun says, can be traced to a "great shift to research after 1945." One inevitable result has been the student riots, the worst of which occurred at Columbia soon after Barzun completed his manuscripts. He is noticeably cool to student rioters, although he sympathizes with some of their protests. So many professors are busy with activities outside the classroom, he says...
...them on experimental models of small, airborne cars propelled by large fans and designed to move people as easily as planes. The Navy plans to use the bearings for hauling giant ship propellers and shafts around the Pearl Harbor shipyard. NBC has bought air bearings to shift heavy bleachers around TV studios, and several manufacturers are already using them to move heavy equipment and products across factory floors. Air bearings placed under a one-ton machine, for example, enable a workman to move it across a smooth surface with a push of less than 15 Ibs. Another manufacturer, Airfloat Corp...
...also cut down by its inherent inaccuracy. Last Fall, Ford warned that the Faculty would run a $1.7 million deficit in 1967-68. By the time the expenses had been toted up, however, the loss had changed to a profit of more than $1 million. That dramatic a shift is unusual, but every year's budget ends up looking better in June than it had when predicted in October, because Ford is intentionally liberal in estimating costs and conservative in predicting income...