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...magnetic forces, thus permitting its particles to be accelerated to extremely high speeds. At the heart of the engine are two aluminum electrodes, 8 in. in diameter and about 1 in. apart. The electrodes are connected to a charged, 3,000-volt capacitor, but as long as the gap between them is a high vacuum (the engine works only in the vacuum of space), no spark of electricity can arc across. Every second or so, when a small amount of nitrogen gas is allowed to leak into the gap, a spark flashes, turning the nitrogen into a plasma by ionizing...
...College because of the extraordinarily rapid and unprecedented increase in the cost of a Harvard education. Scholarship stipends grew steadily smaller in relation to the total cost, and the scholarship holder had to supply by self-help a steadily larger proportion of the total cost. The self-help gap was about $450 in 1950 and $800 in 1960. The average scholarship stipend was $1,082 below the official over-all student budget in 1950, $1,709 below it in 1960. This happened in a decade when our scholarship endowment increased by over twelve and a half million dollars, about...
Bender expressed great worry about the College's scholarship program in his report, pointing out that the "self-help" gap for scholarship students had grown from...
...braces, the youngest freshman got the biggest welcome at the University of California at Los Angeles. Lance Kerr, of Sun Valley, Calif., told newsmen that he likes swimming and baseball, hopes to be a research physicist, hopes his classmates like him. They doubtless will, but there is an age gap. Freshman Kerr* is only twelve years old, the youngest student in U.C.L.A. history...
Jack Kennedy, who has stated his belief that no man who is anti-business can be a successful President, so far has sought to close the confidence gap by gestures rather than policy changes. The White House has been negotiating for him to address next year's convention of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce-an event he conspicuously boycotted last spring. More recently, Kennedy has summoned leaders of the C. of C., the National Association of Manufacturers and the Com mittee for Economic Development to ask: "What makes you think we are anti-business?" To that, U.S. business leaders...