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...Middle East programs, from which American students get their knowledge of Arab society, go back to the 18th century, when Hebrew and Arabic were valued for their relevance to biblical and archaeological studies. They have thrived in recent years with funds from the post-Sputnik National Defense Education Act, the Ford Foundation and oil companies. Today leading centers-generally umbrella departments coordinating language, history, cultural and political studies-are at Princeton, U.C.L.A., Columbia, Chicago, Berkeley, Harvard and Michigan...
Most of the students in Soc Sci 119 are science concentrators, educated in the wakes of both Sputnik and Vietnam, trying to reconcile future careers with the questions of conscience raised by pollution, electronic battlefields and computerized intimidation. Mendelsohn brings to science a relevancy offering more new questions than easy solutions, often making the dilemmas provocatively personal. "Science is done by human beings and interacts with their other functions," Mendelsohn says, "I have tried to link the history with social responsibility...
...noted that the rockets that formerly carried aloft Sputnik and Telstar now are being used to launch nuclear warheads...
...sullen skies of Texas, Lady Bird unveiled Sculptor Jimilu Mason's bust of her late husband and received a standing ovation as she quietly recalled her personal memories of the space age: "For us, my husband and me and a small group of guests, the news of Sputnik came while we were at the ranch. We walked along the little river, the Pedernales, that runs in front of our house, all of us eerily aware that a new and unknown element had changed our familiar world...
...President's Science Advisory Committee. The 20 scientists of that committee provided technical expertise when they were asked for it, and occasional criticism even when they were not-as in the case of the SST. As a result, for the first time since the Russians launched Sputnik 1, the nation's scientists have no direct voice in the inner councils of the White House...