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...shall be ... to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts." These needs keep changing, of course, and over the decades the U.S. economy demanded of its universities not only chemists and engineers but lawyers and accountants and personnel analysts, and then, after Sputnik's shocking revelation of the Soviet lead in space, yet more engineers...
Engineering has long been in a boom-and-bust cycle. In the late 1950s, after the first Sputnik was launched, it was a hot field. Then in the early 1970s, with the winding down of the Project Apollo space program and the Viet Nam War, and the cancellation of projects to build an American supersonic commercial airplane, engineers had a tough time finding work. Now glamorous new computer technologies as well as advances in other fields of applied science have made the profession popular once again...
Many older engineers, who decided upon their professions before the Sputnik rush, view with skepticism any talk of an engineer shortage. They see this as an attempt, indeed almost a conspiracy, by the engineering colleges and the big employing companies to increase the supply of engineers and thus hold down salaries. One of them is James V. Ball, 45, B.S.E.E. (University of Michigan, '64), who has a master's degree in engineering management (Northeastern, '68). He is now a systems manager in Sunnyvale, Calif. Says Ball: "There is no engineer shortage. If salaries were raised, whatever...
Even the visionaries on Manhattan's Broadcasting Row slept soundly that autumn night in 1957 when the space age was born with the launching of Sputnik I. In those days CBS and NBC owned the U.S. television audience, with tiny ABC, known then as "the Almost Broadcasting Company," struggling to catch up. In the years that followed ABC closed the gap, but it is not simply a three-way rivalry any more. Proliferating communications satellites-the progeny of Sputnik-now offer an alternative method of linking up new networks, cheaper and more flexible than the long-distance telephone lines...
...Sputnik, but it is a surprise. Somehow one did not think of the Soviet Union as being full of women wearing smart suits, conducting complicated careers and wondering, of a lonely evening, where all the strong, decent and interesting men have gone. Certainly few would have guessed that the Soviets would be the first to turn out a thoroughly pleasing romantic comedy of the feminist persuasion. Next thing you know, someone will be trying to tell us the Japanese make better small cars than...