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...been a Communist Party member since the 1930s. After Tsien was sentenced to deportation as a Communist, the Government had second thoughts. It argued that he possessed valuable knowledge that, if carried abroad, would be "inimical to the best interests of the U.S." So he remained at Caltech until 1955. Allowed at last to leave, he returned to the Chinese mainland and went right to work. Soon he was a full-fledged member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and was posing for pictures at Mao's side. After a millennium of waiting, the Chinese "fire arrow" clearly...
...Caltech & M.I.T.: Rivalry Between the Best
...best institutes of technology in the U.S.-Caltech and M.I.T.-have reached new milestones, marking a time for them to reassess their roles and goals. Last week Caltech (enrollment 1,494) held a three-day scientific convocation to observe its 75th anniversary. A few weeks earlier, M.I.T. (enrollment 7,400) inaugurated a new president, Economist Howard Wesley Johnson, 44. As each school looks inward, it also stares across the 2,600 miles between Pasadena and Cambridge with what an M.I.T. professor terms "interested tension"-a polite phrase for one of academe's hottest and healthiest rivalries...
...down the rivalry. Yet each is willing to take a velvety swipe at the other institution, and in the process they characterize the schools rather accurately. M.I.T.'s Johnson, who moved up from the deanship of its Sloan School of Management to replace the retiring Julius Stratton, calls Caltech a "helpful collaborator and competitor." He says that "over the years, M.I.T. has concentrated more on applications of science than pure science," rightly claims that "the range of work we do in engineering has no duplicate at Caltech-their whole school is smaller than our electrical-engineering department." Caltech...
Theory & Practice. In their specialties, the two schools have been world pacesetters. Caltech's astronomers use the telescopes at Mount Wilson and Palomar observatories, and with Maarten Schmidt have explored the unusual nature of quasi-stellar objects (TIME cover, March 11). Its biologists and chemists, including James Bonner and Linus Pauling, have advanced knowledge of the basic chemistry of human life. Physicist Richard Feynman is helping to unify the theories of gravitational and electrodynamic fields, and his colleague, Murray Gell-Mann, broke new ground in subatomic theory by correctly predicting the existence of new particles. Seismologist Charles F. Richter...