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Since 1923. when Stratton took his degree in electrical engineering at M.I.T.. the Cambridge school has almost wholly altered its character. That year M.I.T. spent something more than $2,000,000 at its specialty: turning out high-quality engineers. Last year, under Acting President Stratton-who took over when President Killian was named Special Assistant for Science and Technology to President Eisenhower-M.I.T. spent almost $21 million for operating costs, another $54 million on sponsored research projects. But more important than a ballooned budget are M.I.T.'s expanded objectives. The institute still trains some of the nation...
...reform was pushed through: raising the departments of humanities and social sciences to the status of the institute's other professional schools. At 57, Physicist "J" Stratton is well qualified to understand the importance of the humanities; after he graduated from M.I.T., he made the grand tour, spent much of his time studying French literature at the Universities of Grenoble and Toulouse. He earned his doctorate in mathematical physics at Zurich, returned to M.I.T. to teach electrical engineering, soon switched to physics. His first big administrative task after World War II: organizing the successor to the institute...
...directive that "the future direction is for schools to run factories and farms, and for factories and agricultural cooperatives to establish schools." They banded together, built the "Red Scarf" steel and iron factory, now claim production of 40 tons of metal daily. To ask that summer vacations be spent vacationing is "a decadent viewpoint ... It should be known that after spending a busy period of time in study, taking up manual work over a short period is good relaxation...
...potty old military party who never lets up about the good old days in North Africa-until one day he is charged with molesting a woman in a local cinema, and the newspaper reports that he was not a major at all but only a lieutenant, and that he spent the war in a supply depot. This makes for several other complications because the resident battle-ax (Gladys Cooper) soon starts swinging for The Major's head. She demands that he be forced to leave the hotel, even though-or perhaps because-she knows that her shy, hysterical daughter...
...million in only ten years. Says Revell's 41-year-old President Lewis H. Glaser: "Assembling models is the nation's leading hobby. It even beats stamp collecting." This year total model kit sales will account for $75 million of the $1.5 billion spent on toys. Among Revell's new models for Christmas buying: a three-stage manned rocket to the moon (price: $1.98) and a Jupiter-C intermediate-range missile (price $1.98). To attract girls, there will be $1.98 life-size models of Walt Disney's squirrel Perri, a tiny koala bear and a beagle...