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Throughout the post-Sputnik era, there was unprecedented demand-and unaccustomed prosperity-for U.S. scientists, engineers and technicians. No longer. As a result of sharp cutbacks in defense spending, reduced allocations for space programs, federal tightfistedness when it comes to basic research, and a faltering national economy, the scientific community is suffering a fullblown recession...
...parents: Dalton is the most progressive of the city's chic schools and the most chic of the city's progressive schools. Since it opened in 1919, Dalton has let children set their own pace through a curriculum rich in art and music. In the post-Sputnik 1960s, though, Dalton's board joined the national clamor for more academic rigor and became ever more eager for a school that could push children into high-prestige colleges. To tighten up, the board of trustees picked a stubborn new headmaster in 1964. As it turns out, Donald Barr...
...years since Russia launched Sputnik 1, man has steadily pushed back the frontiers of space. Astronauts have walked on the moon, the Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 has soft-landed on Venus, and three U.S. Mariner spacecraft have swept past Mars, transmitting detailed pictures back to earth. Now scientists are preparing for an even more far-reaching journey. Last week NASA discussed its plans to launch the first unmanned planetary probe to the outer part of the solar system-a 550-lb. spacecraft that will fly past Jupiter...
Spurred on by World War II, then the cold war, then Sputnik, U.S. science rose to an unprecedented level of prestige in the 1960s. Yet even as it is gaining its greatest triumphs-the moon, the green revolution, the ability to control and even change the processes of life-science and scientists have come under increasing attack. Some more reasonable critics argue that the antiscience barrage promises more good than harm for a field that has been enjoying too high a priority for too long. Science Writer Lawrence Lessing, a member of FORTUNE'S board of editors, does...
...General Education is now going out of favor. The emphasis on science following the first. Sputnik was the first blow to the idea that the well-educated man is one who has read the Iliad, the Aeneid, and the Inferno. In 1966, Daniel Bell, Professor of Sociology, issued a critical re-appraisal of the Gen Ed concept, in a study commissioned by Columbia University, which was redesigning its General Education program. Since then, Gen Ed has become an increasingly unpopular idea, subjected to more and more criticism of its basic philosophy...