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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...generation of tankers is getting too big for its berths. The world's latest heavyweight champion of the seas, a 276,000-ton ship built by Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co. (IHI), last week had to be eased prematurely down the ways in Yokohama with upper portions of her towering hull unfinished. When completed, the new tanker, made in Japan for the U.S.'s National Bulk Carriers, Inc., will pack an incredible 2.2 million barrels of crude oil on her route from the Persian Gulf to Ireland, via the Cape of Good Hope. By building...
...around colleges, is directed at the system of student deferments. The inequity of deferring those whose family background and financial status have led to their college attendance has been pointed out by groups as disparate as U.S. Senators and black militants. The result of these deferments is historically interesting: upper and middle-class males have managed to avoid military service altogether (until recently), while the lower classes provided almost all the regular soldiers. By-passing students is, of course, said to be in the national interest, but many contemporary critics have viewed the procedure primarily as a very effective means...
Recently, the middle and upper-class escape has been selectively blocked. The major means for avoiding military service until after the 26-year cut-off, graduate school deferments, has been threatened for all non-science students. The conservative logic runs as follows: A particular cultural approach--in this case, technological, specialized, scientific--has led to America's position of political and economic power in the world. In order to maintain and further that position, the same attitude must be enforced by the SSS on this generation to ensure the future of our nation...
Among unique features of the building, designed by Harry Weese & Associates, will be double-decked elevators, designed to end rush-hour jams. Coming to work, staff members will be able to enter the lower or upper section of the cars from different lobby levels, depending on whether they work on odd-or even-numbered floors. Once at work, they will be protected from extreme fluctuations of exterior light or heat by deep gold glass mirrored to keep out most solar rays. This will also create a one-way view out during the day, while at night, bright interior illumination will...
...still that of California, where former President Clark Kerr's master plan is continually reviewed by a coordinating council that includes representatives of the state's private colleges. The Kerr plan assigns clear functions to three levels of state institutions: the university (which takes the upper 12½% of high school graduates), the state colleges (the upper third), and the junior colleges (everyone else). Each level has its own governing board, such as the powerful university regents, but all yield to funding decisions of the state legislature and the Governor...