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During the interregnum, Faculty meetings reflected the vacuum of leadership. Debates lengthened and wandered from the issues at question, without the influential voice of a permanent dean to direct the discussions. Meanwhile attendance rose and fell erratically, occasionally dropping below the number necessary for a quorum. The low attendance became enough of a problem to compel the creation of rules requiring the presence at meetings of department chairmen, House masters and certain other faculty...
...Esaki was able to produce a sample with which he demonstrated that tunneling can occur in semiconductors-something that had been suspected but never proved. Esaki's tiny gadget, called a tunnel diode, quickly found use as a switching device in electronic applications, performing much faster than a vacuum tube or even a transistor...
...particularly the tendency of the heart to grow "lazy" in space. Thus after bedrest, which is intended to simulate zero gravity, the adaptability of the nurses' circulatory system was tested by placing a bag tightly around the lower body and pumping the air out. This created a partial vacuum, which tends to concentrate the blood in the lower part of the body and to create the effects of gravity on astronauts who have just returned to earth. The bed rest was also followed by placing the women in a centrifuge and whirling them at three Gs for as long...
Early on, GRO recognized the need to deal with the many other problems confronting Cambridge. The issue of big development does not exist in a vacuum. A platform was hammered out for political action on a wide range of problems. This platform centers on five issues basic to the quality of life here in Cambridge...
This is not so much the fault of bureaucrats, who have merely moved to fill a vacuum, as it is of us, for failing to keep our system up to date with the expansion and technological change in our society. But wherever the fault may lie, it is individual liberty which suffers, as elected officials accountable to us lose control over the actions of the state: "Things are in the saddle and ride mankind...