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...place bigger yet smaller-large enough to compete with the well-equipped state schools, but not so monolithic. He changed the name from college to university. Then-after visiting Oxford and Cambridge ("draftiest damn week of my life") for guidance-Burns set out to expand the university through "cluster" colleges: small, autonomous schools with ivied walls, beamed ceilings, great halls and high tables, the whole Oxbridge bit. The first to be opened was Raymond College, a $3,000,000 complex of seven buildings with more than 4,800 crop-rich acres as endowment. Though yet to feel the cling...
...muscle of the actual moon voyage will be the F-l engine now being developed by North American Aviation, 'Inc. Each F-l will have 1,500,000 lbs. of thrust, and a cluster of five will lift the great moon-bound rockets off the ground. But the F-l also vibrates, sometimes so violently during static tests that it threatens to explode. North American believes that the trouble will soon be licked, but this is a lonely confidence...
...restaurants in unearthly shapes, of neon in colors not known elsewhere, of low white buildings-a street, in sum, of vast self-assurance. Of all the streets in the endless palm-and-asphalt plains that stretch from Pasadena to Long Beach, this is where the Los Angeles art galleries cluster, and every Monday night a large crowd gathers to go to them. From all over come matrons out for culture, art students, kids on an inexpensive date, a scattering of beatniks. There are even some artists, recognizable by their uniform: paint-splattered jeans, workmen's shirts, big brown belts...
...When a cluster of swarming bees is deprived of its queen, the bees soon desert to other bee colonies unless she returns. To find out why, Dr. Simpson imprisoned a queen in a wire-screen cage with double walls. He put the cage near a cluster of worried, queenless bees. The workers responded joyously. They swarmed all over the cage, vibrating their wings. But when Simpson imprisoned a queen in a small, transparent plastic bag, she had no effect on the other bees. They could see and hear her, but they ignored her completely...
This seemed to prove that the queen's perfume is what makes the workers cluster around her, but Simpson wanted to know what part of her is most attractively scented. So he cut a queen in three pieces-abdomen, thorax and head-and put each in a separate cage. None of the three had much effect on-a queenless cluster, but when the severed parts were crushed, the workers rallied around the crushed head. So the queen's powerful perfume must come from her head, probably from the mandibular glands...