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McCrosky, lecturer on Astronomy, showed the television audience the equipment of the Smithsonian Institute which photographs the sky all night long every night. With cameras that can detect a six inch sphere as far away as the moon, they have never detected "anything we don't understand...
...logic and equally obtuse prose. His argument that Johnson's plan represents a thinly veiled desire to extend the control of the President over Congress may be valid. But paranoid statements like "the Executive searches with lupine voracity for problem areas that it may entrench itself in yet another sphere of life" are absurd...
...across 30 rows of seats at a listless scholar reading from his own textbook and begrudging the time spent away from his esoteric research. In smaller classes, students are likely to meet some harassed teaching assistant absorbed in his specialized graduate studies, sometimes not even teaching in his own sphere of knowledge. "We have sought out ability with football quarterbacks, we are beginning to do it with executives and musicians, but we haven't started with teachers," says Cornell President James Perkins. Even in some small colleges, where teaching is supposed to be the sole goal, says one university president...
Mercurial Change. To build so perfect a gyroscope, Stanford Physicists William Fairbank and Francis Everitt will use a sphere of quartz coated with niobium, a metal that becomes a superconductor and shows no resistance to electric current when cooled to extremely low temperatures. The sphere will be placed inside an evacuated quartz shell, also coated with niobium, and suspended in an electrostatic field. Suspending it in this manner will allow it to spin in a near-perfect vacuum without touching anything; it will be free from all friction. The gyroscope container will be kept in a bath of liquid helium...
...other words, they wanted to know what Japan would give them. Before anybody could say "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere," the Japanese were dangling goodies. Premier Eisaku Sato and his colleagues promised to expand their aid for transportation and communications, ports and harbors. Specifically, the Japanese said they would increase what they loosely call economic aid-including war reparations, long-term credits, private investments and government grants-from $350 million in fiscal 1965 to $870 million in fiscal 1968, mostly for Southeast Asia. Naturally, Japan hopes that such pump-priming will expand its private business in the region, which...