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...Jaegar, Secretary of Edu- ention and Cultural Affairs, State Government, Rio Grande do Sul, explained the two-way approach of autonomy and centralization towards education in Brazil. The Federal government aids lower education which remains a local responsibility, decentralized in content as well as administration. While universities have full autonomy, they are financed by the state...
...bulk of opposition to the Doty Report, at least in the open Faculty debates, centered around the proposal to change the three-way division among Gen Ed courses (Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Humanities) for a two-way division. This would be created by combining History with the Humanities and including a new "Behavioral Sciences" category (anthropology, psychology, social relations, and "appropriate portions" of Government) along with the traditional "Natural Sciences" in a new "Sciences" category. Humanists like Reuben Brower and Rogers Albritton objected to the debasement of the word "Humanities;" social scientists like Samuel Beer objected to the separation...
...hours after launch, it is scheduled to be in position, orbiting at the same speed as the earth's rotation and thus, in effect, providing a stationary relay station in space. After several days of testing, it will beam a series of international telecasts. Then its 240 two-way voice channels will be switched on for telephone calls-Comsat's first revenue-producing operation-and will provide 24-hour service to Europe. Later, after a network of satellites is launched, worldwide telephone service will be available...
...Two-Way Mirror. The rise in spies, along with increasing theft and embezzlements, has produced stronger counterespionage as well as more frequent lawsuits. In what has become a benchmark decision, B.F. Goodrich Co. recently won an injunction forbidding a Goodrich space-suit engineer who had gone over to International Latex to use knowledge gained at Goodrich on his new space-suit work. So far, Du Pont has legally gagged a chemical engineer who knew its chloride process for making titanium dioxide paints when he left for American Potash & Chemical; a court order prohibits him from working on titanium dioxide processes...
...workers are sometimes trapped by counterspy-workers sent into plants by such protective agencies as Willmark or the Merit Protective Service. Companies on the defensive are also using closed-circuit television, two-way mirrors, lie-detector tests, and telephone taps of their own. But the very best preventive, businessmen decided at the A.M.A. meeting, is none of these things: it is for companies to keep their employees so content that they will not stoop to snoop for others, and will not be tempted to take their secrets to another company...