Word: caltech
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guided missiles, from props to jets, from steam to atom power. Businessman Gates also brought into the Navy the best electronic bookkeeping system of all the services, bucked the admirals to inaugurate a program under which talented but untrained enlisted men now take science courses at schools such as Caltech and M.I.T. Though a devoted Eisenhower team player, Gates publicly blew his stack against Ike's Defense Department reorganization plan ("The Secretary of Defense has all the authority he needs"), cannonaded against interservice bickerings ("The Secretary of Defense continues to struggle handicapped by traditionally divided service opinions"). Anxious...
...University of Pennsylvania in the late 1930s ("I wanted to relax at night in some uplifting endeavor which had absolutely nothing to do with the Navy"). After combat duty in World War II, he was assigned to work on atomic-bomb projects, pursued further studies in physics at Caltech, the University of New Mexico and Stanford. Well regarded by civilian scientists and Pentagon brass for his background ("I am a Gung Ho pilot and a physicist third class"), Hayward was handed his job in R. & D. when the Navy created the division in 1957, has since been...
...which referred consistently to the Scholastic Aptitude Test of the College Entrance Examination Board, revealed one statistic that seems to give the 'Cliffes an academic edge over their Harvard colleagues: Radcliffe is the second most "selective" college in the country. The only college outranking it is not Harvard, but Caltech...
John Letcher of Lexington, Va. had no trouble deciding where to spend his scholarship money. He is headed for Caltech (three of the other four top winners also want to study there), hopes to work after graduation in nuclear physics or rocket research. He knows an impressive amount already about both subjects. At the Baylor School in Chattanooga, Tenn., where he built the accelerator, he and a research team of schoolboy scientists hope this summer to fire off a stratospheric rocket with a 20-lb. instrument payload. The first-prize winner also plays chess, wrestles on the varsity team...
This week a committee appointed by the National Academy of Sciences and headed by Geochemist Harrison Brown of Caltech sketched out a ten-year program for unlocking the ocean treasure house, which may contain as much of value to man as the earth's land. As the planet becomes more thickly populated, whole nations may get the bulk of their food from the fertile sea, as well as minerals and fuel in vast abundance. A quick and valuable byproduct of oceanography will be improved knowledge of the conditions governing submarine warfare. The committee did not mention, but was well...