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...dark purple sphere about the size of a plum, Super Ball has already bounced into millions of U.S. homes, shows no signs of slowing down. McGeorge Bundy bounces Super Balls in his Washington basement, brokers on the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange throw them about the floor during slack hours, Manhattan executives dribble them on their desks, and kids around the country are bouncing them down sidewalks and school corridors...
After descending significantly farther than their Sealab colleagues - living at a depth of 330 ft. and working even deeper - the six oceanauts of Con Shelf III had to remain in their two-story sphere four days after surfacing while the pressure in the cabin was slowly lowered. It was clear that Cousteau had reason to be elated. Never before had men survived so long at such depths. Moreover, they showed no signs of weakness or sickness, and had managed to do their assigned jobs efficiently...
Most of the equipment actually exceeded expectations. Cousteau's prototype breathing apparatus, which recycles a helium-based artificial atmosphere supplied from the sphere, en abled divers to work outside the cap sule without any time limit. Inside, a miniaturized mass spectrograph, especially adapted for the experiment, monitored composition of the atmosphere, transmitting the results both to the oceanauts and to the surface so that any dangerous variations would be immediately detected...
...absorption by other branches of the university. The various scholarly and research disciplines now represented the School could well, it might be thought, be returned to several Arts and Science departments with which they are naturally affiliated and could continue, from there, to apply themselves to the sphere of education. The preparation of pacers is a function that might also, in certain respects, be allocated to departments (e.g. guidance to psychology or social relations; teachers' methods courses to the various subject departments) and, in other respects, be made the province of a all interdepartmental committee (e.g. to administer practice thing...
...abstract terms, academic freedom guards the liberties of a professor in two broad areas: his right within the academic community to pursue and promulgate truth without restrictions or censorship from the University Administration, and his right, in the public sphere, to enjoy the freedoms of association and expression which any citizen possesses. At the more of all issues of academic freedom the question of tenure; it is the safeguard which allows a professor to exercise his rights without fear of intimidation from either University or public officials...