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...laboratory is the workshop of the scientist, and meters, test-tubes and other apparatus are his tools. He cannot do research without them. The historian's workshop is the library; he can neither teach nor do research without one. Similarly, the artist works in a studio. He may study color, design, and the works of other artists, but to do his own work--and to encourage creativity in his students--he needs a studio. If it is accepted that artistic creativity is a proper use for man's intellectual powers, then the artist--and his studio--belong in the university...
...accuracy of ESG is a closely guarded Navy secret, but Honeywell confidently claims that it outclasses all other gyros. It will first be put to use on nuclear submarines, where it will serve as a monitor to check the guidance apparatus that is already installed for the sub and its Polaris missiles. With a bottled star on board, subs need never come near the dangerous surface to check their positions by celestial sights...
Apartheid has denied all meaningful political rights to Negroes, Indians, and mulattoes who comprise 80 per cent of South Africa's population; it has also limited their education, barred them from skilled jobs, up-booted many from their homes, and subjected them to the inhuman apparatus of a police state...
Julian Grimau Garcia was 25 and a detective in Madrid when the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936. But he was also a member of the Spanish Communist Party, and his professional police training soon landed him a key job in the Red apparatus. He became chief of "criminal investigations" for Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona, ferreting out supporters of Francisco Franco. Part of Grimau's job was to serve on kangaroo courts, called Chekas (after the onetime initials of the Soviet secret police), which ordered dozens of summary death sentences during the brutal three-year...
...abundance has brought staggering burdens along with its boons. Rising farm productivity has led to oversupply. To cope with it, the U.S. Government maintains a costly, creaky apparatus of price supports and production controls. "Our agriculture system," Freeman once conceded, "is on the one hand a miracle and on the other hand a mess...