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Odegaard added strong departments of genetics and nuclear engineering, strengthened Washington's already respected schools of fisheries, forestry and Far Eastern studies. This week a new $3,000,000 oceanographic vessel for the university is en route from Boston; later it will explore the bottom of the Bering Strait. Washington's medical school is now so respected that 75% of Harvard's 1964 medical graduates applied for internships in Seattle. Enrollment has grown to 25,000. Odegaard has raised admission standards for liberal-arts students and has sharply upgraded undergraduate instruction to catch up to strong graduate...
...seriocomic side-glances at counterespionage aboard ship. The best scene takes place in sick bay, where diagnosticians earnestly analyze a specimen of floating garbage to see if they can detect Red cabbage, a staple of Soviet submarines. In another cryptic comment on cold war manners, a Russian surface vessel passes to port, simultaneously dipping its colors and dumping refuse over the side. Such cogency is missing from the standard high-megaton finale. Obviously made without the full cooperation of any specific navy, Incident emerges at last as its own worst enemy-a timely sea saga that cannot resist turning...
Building to Stay. If "the golf course" is a triumph of sweat and ingenuity, Cam Ranh Bay, abuilding 190 miles north of Saigon, is the manifesto of American engineering. Fifteen miles long, five miles wide, deep enough for any ocean vessel, rimmed by smooth, sun-blanched beaches, Cam Ranh Bay was probably the world's most underdeveloped great natural harbor. Until, that is, four months ago-when the 4,000 men of the 35th Engineer Group went to work...
...ship, built by Ishikawajima-Harima for the U.S.'s Caltex Corp. at a cost of $12 million, is notable for more than its size. Its valves, pumps and winches are so automated that the giant vessel requires only a 29-man crew. Its construction, from keel laying to launching, was accomplished in an extraordinarily speedy 140 days...
...substance. Faust cries out: "Two beings ah! within my breast are fighting!" One clings to the earth, one "mightily thrusts upward to the sky." Salvation, for Goethe, lies in man's capacity to reconcile these opposites in creative activity. For creation, for a true birth, the feminine vessel is necessary as well as the masculine spark; but the problem of woman involves the problem of evil; and so Faust sells his soul to the Devil in return for the love of the loveliest woman alive. Seduced by the Devil, he seduces Gretchen, gets her with child, abandons...