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...five years, astronomers have been scanning the skies to become the first to sight one of history's most celebrated objects. Last week a Caltech team led by British Graduate Student David C. Jewitt, 24, and Staff Astronomer G. Edward Danielson, 43, won the cosmic sweepstakes. Using Palomar Observatory's 200-in. telescope, they spotted Halley's comet as a faint moving dot in the constellation Canis Minor. The comet has not been seen since 1911. A year earlier, its fiery appearance caused a rash of doomsday forecasts and end-of-the-world parties...
Last week Caltech, J.P.L.'s parent institution, which operates under contract with NASA, announced Murray's successor: former Air Force Chief of Staff General Lew Allen Jr., 56. The appointment continues a trend to garb the U.S. space program in Air Force blue. Earlier this year Air Force Major General James Abrahamson was put in charge of the shuttle. Former Air Force Secretary Hans Mark is NASA'S deputy administrator, the agency's No. 2 job. And the shuttle wears symbolic wings; through fiscal 1985, a fourth of its missions will be for the Air Force...
There is the expected rush of applicants to the top-level schools, such as Caltech, M.I.T., Rensselaer, Cornell and Michigan. At Caltech, 1,665 applicants sought 215 seats for the fall 1982 term. Other, less competitive engineering schools also have far more applicants than classroom spaces. Among those are the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Texas A&M (the largest engineering school in the U.S., with 1,500 graduates yearly) and the Rochester Institute of Technology...
...other expenses for a typical school year have risen to $11,700 at M.I.T. or $9,100 for nonresident students at state universities like Michigan. Scholastic Aptitude Test math scores for successful candidates at the more competitive schools hover at lofty averages: 760 and 687 out of 800 at Caltech and Rensselaer, respectively, which put those candidates in the top percentiles of all who take the tests...
...decade ago, such heated corporate competition for an engineering prospect was usually reserved for graduates of renowned schools like Caltech and M.I.T. No longer. Martin attends the Rochester Institute of Technology, a respectable but hardly prestigious college nestled in a wooded area south of New York's third largest city. R.I.T. is one of many once overlooked schools that are riding high on the wave of corporate demand for engineers. Enrollment in its engineering division has nearly doubled in the past ten years, to 1,633, and despite the recession, all but 20 of this year...