Word: six
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...engineering schools are often criticized for being behind the scientific times; their enrollments have stagnated. This week the Ford Foundation, which overlooked the field up to now, marched in with a massive $19.05 million gift to four institutes of technology (Caltech, Carnegie, Case, M.I.T.) and six universities (U.C.L.A., Michigan, Illinois, Purdue, Stanford, Wisconsin). The goal: a sharp boost for pace setters, and so for all U.S. engineering schools...
Last week the six winners looked more like close-cropped Spartans cut loose in Athens. Donning black robes and boarding bicycles, they found Oxford a startling experience. They met their tutors, pondered invitations to join the Zen Buddhist club, learned where to sneak in after college gates close at midnight. The headiest shock was Oxford's enfolding leisure. Suddenly there was time to talk all night, to sleep until noon. "Back there," mused the go-go Air Academy's Brad Hosmer, 21, "I barely had time to read a book a week." Muttered another unbound lieutenant: "I keep...
...goat-bearded Party Boss Walter Ulbricht smiled. It was the 550th anniversary of his home-town university, and what he had done to it made him proud. Since 1953, Leipzig University has been called Karl-Marx University, "model of the socialist type of university." Last week Leipzig, which took six centuries to build, was a model of how to kill a great institution in six years...
...error. Running a filler item on annual steel production in the U.S., the Times misquoted a single digit; five readers called in triumphantly with the correction. When an ad erroneously quoted a can of tuna at 7? instead of 17?, penny-watching pensioners bought 6,960 cans in six hours; the store billed the Times $696 for the mistake...
...industry. With stockpiles reduced sharply, dozens of industries are slowing down and beginning to lay off. Auto, appliance, farm-equipment, machinery makers are all tightening their belts, and they face still more trouble before the economy is rolling at full speed again. The mills will need four to six weeks to get back to 90% of capacity, at least three months to fill the empty pipelines...