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...range of work we do in engineering has no duplicate at Caltech-their whole school is smaller than our electrical-engineering department." Caltech's President Lee A. DuBridge, who headed M.I.T.'s radar-producing Radiation Laboratory in World War II, says that Caltech is now trying to strengthen its engineering and M.I.T. is building its science departments so that "we have steadily become more like one another." He is smoothly confident, however, that Caltech will be able "to maintain a nonindustrial, unhurried, even nonmetropolitan atmosphere of informality and intimacy...
...California, Don Muchmore's State Poll found that voters favor by a 2-to-l margin the controversial Proposition 16, which would strengthen anti-pornography legislation by popular initiative. Known as the CLEAN amendment (for the Californiam League to Enlist Action Now), Proposition 16 would broaden the criteria for declaring material obscene and give police discretion in making seizures. Opponents argue that Proposition 16 amounts to unconstitutional censorship. Democratic Governor Edmund Brown, running for his third term, opposes the proposition, while his Republican opponent, Ronald Reagan, supports...
Having muffed its chance to prevent disaster cheaply, the Lebanese government drafted a law allocating $17 million to pay off Intra's small depositors. Then at last it began considering how to strengthen the supervision of its banks...
...kinds of charitable organizations that perform similar services. If religious groups were forced to give up tax exemptions, "serious questions of unconstitutional discrimination might arise." Indeed, taxing churches might well violate the First Amendment's "free exercise" clause. By contrast, suggested the Maryland court, not taxing churches may strengthen religious freedom...
...grant that financed Deutsch's appointment totalled $12.5 million and was designed to strengthen Harvard's program in international affairs...