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...President Hannah's nine years, Michigan State College has almost trebled in size; this year enrollments total 16,000 full-time students. But the 16,000 are only a small fraction of those who study at M.S.C. Each year, some 100,000 people come from all over the state to take special short-term courses. They include insurance salesmen and pickle packers, fur breeders and cattlemen, farmers who come 40,000 strong for the annual Farmers' Week. For those who cannot make the trip, M.S.C. has other means of extending "service": lecturers, farm and home demonstrators, and assorted...
...flurry of editorial rebuttals in that paper over the last week. The article appeared last Monday, the day of Matthiessen's funeral, and referred to his suicide as "a confession of moral cowardice" and the "ne plus ultra of dramatizing oneself to the last possible fraction of a second...
...believe the time is ripe for physicists, and scientists in general, to devote a much larger fraction of their time to research of military interest . . ." At present, Dr. Seitz says, there is not much opportunity or encouragement for such high-type recruits. Government money is not lacking, but Government research agencies have not enough imagination, leadership or freedom to act. One trouble, of wide concern to scientists, is congressional sniping...
Between the Crops. But nobody denied that the union had the right valley, if the wrong man. Last week an estimated 40,000 farm laborers were jobless, watching their savings melt away between the early cotton and the delayed potato crop. A small fraction of them lived passably well in the former Government camps, now run by growers' associations, but an uncounted number were living as the U.S. likes to think none of its citizens lives-in corrugated tin hovels or sagging tents, with no capital left to drag a flock of youngsters to the next harvest area...
...scientists named their creation "californium" after their state and university. They did not manufacture much of it. The curium they used was an invisible film weighing a few millionths of a gram, and only a small fraction of it changed into californium. The new element proved so radioactive that half of it disintegrated in 45 minutes. It took fast action to identify it and measure some of its properties before it vanished...