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This will probably mean private foundation support, which in light of the recently disclosed CIA adventures raises some questions. Moll says his program is "pure," that its connection with the government is open and above board, but he is nevertheless disturbed about the impact of the CIA link with associate organizations...
...sure, tough screening and accounting procedures help make certain that the bonanza is not a boondoggle; both the givers and the receivers of grants rightly insist that money invested in research has paid off a hundredfold in scholarly discoveries. Nonetheless, some educators are beginning to wonder about the impact of all that easy-come money on the universities. Salary, prestige and promotion depend upon a scholar's ability to probe and publish-which in turn often depends upon his ability to unearth research grants. "You need the federal loot to do the research to do the book...
...annual total of aircraft-bird collisions now exceeds 1,600, some of them resulting in injuries and even fatal crashes. The Air Force alone estimates that it spends about $5,000,000 per year to repair aircraft surfaces battered or even pierced by the high-velocity impact of large fowl; it costs another $4,000,000 to $5,000,000 to repair or replace jet engines that have been damaged by ingested birds. But scientific help is on the way for aircraft-as well as for the birds, which fare even worse in aerial collisions...
...this reason I am skeptical of attempts to generalize at the overall impact of the Peace Corps, especially on such intangibles as "understanding" and "good will." The Brooks write: "If each Volunteer contacts some thousand people in this personal way, then the 50,000 Volunteers who will have returned to this country by 1970 will have directly influenced, in some way or other, over 50,000,000 people around the world. And if each one of these 50,000,000 passes along a little of his understanding to his friends and neighbors, then the circle of impact will widen beyond...
Smashing Success. In early 1931, Time Inc. launched a new project that had an extraordinary impact on radio broadcasting and later on movie news reporting: THE MARCH OF TIME. Put together by Roy Larsen, TIME's vice president (now chairman of the Time Inc. executive committee), THE MARCH OF TIME could fairly claim to have been the precursor of the TV documentary. Under the aegis of Larsen and Producer Louis de Rochemont, it produced hundreds of provocative films for 15 years before being phased out in the face of TV in 1951. In addition to its value...