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...course, the appliedresearch programs in nuclear physics, space and defense are important to the national purpose," says President Lee DuBridge of Caltech. "But precisely because these programs are large, the Government's support of basic research should be larger than now. It is now inadequate to keep the topnotch people in the universities provided with funds for research and equipment." The Federal Government, Dr. DuBridge argues, is spending about $15 billion a year on research and development, but only $400 to $500 million of the allotment goes to basic research in the universities. The rest of the money, says...
Since prestige, especially in the sciences, is most easily measured by the rate of a professor's publication, the number of Government panels he has served on, and the number of trips abroad he has made as a consultant to a struggling new nation, the topnotch professor whose reputation lured the student to the university campus in the first place is rarely there to teach him. Says a Stanford scholar in the sciences, who considers himself lucky to be teaching only three hours a week: "It's not only how many papers you publish, but how many dollars...
People Shortage. Freeport's first hotel, the lush, 254-room neo-Aztec Lucayan Beach, opened last January (cheapest room: $37), and its casino-the first in the Bahamas-is kept busy by visitors from Miami. A topnotch 18-hole golf course and country club are completed. Just up the beach, there will be a 500-room Holiday Inn Hotel and a 150-room boatel and marina; other land has been bought for nightspots, motels, office buildings, a shopping center, private homes, a draught-and-rafters English pub. The biggest moneymaker so far is a $1,500,000 bunkering terminal...
That was not, of course, the end of the Ruby case. Henry Wade had three topnotch medical experts of his own waiting to present rebuttal testimony. They were Neurologists Francis Forster of the University of Wisconsin, Roland Mackay of Northwestern Medical School, and Robert S. Schwab of the Harvard Medical School. Each testified that Ruby's electroencephalograph charts proved no markedly serious ailment in the defendant. When Forster was asked if the graphs supported a diagnosis of psychomotor epilepsy, he retorted: "They would...
Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey. Arguments for: a tried and true liberal, a topnotch orator. Arguments against: too liberal, not a Catholic...