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...reporting to nearby Point Mugu Naval-Air Missile Test Center. Already experienced at its work, the twelve-year-old Navy center has been scoring its own Sparrow and Bullpup guided missiles over a short ocean range, safely sent ship-based Regulus missiles over the mountains 500 miles inland to impact at Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah. Now enlarging to handle bigger missiles-perhaps to test submarine-based Polaris as well as work on National Aeronautics and Space Administration experiments-the Navy has recently started pad construction on 20,000 acres at Point Arguello right next to Vandenberg...
N.C.R.'s restless research has brought some exciting new inventions, such as a carbonless carbon paper (chemically coated sheets that reproduce type on impact). While working on this, N.C.R. discovered a method of enclosing liquid in microscopic gelatin capsules, thus making a liquid look and act like a solid. So treated, castor oil becomes tasteless-because it is covered with gelatin. More than 1,000 companies are investigating the process to see if it can be used for their own products, and the Pentagon has contracted with National to "encapsulate" liquid rocket fuel so that it will pack...
...even more serious objection to the "perspective theory emerges from the efforts of psychologists to study the impact of the college on student beliefs and values. Whereas college may well make students verbally conscious of new areas of choice, only a handful of potent" colleges actually induce the student to try out new attitudes. The great majority of institutions simply stabilize and give meaning to the middle class truisms with which the student left high school. With a few exceptions, of which Harvard is apparently one, the American college seems to accelerate students' assimilation into the dominant marketplace culture, rather...
...college which supposedly breeds clear thinking is actually helping the student to find words and experience in which to clothe his middle class attitudes, then perhaps we would do well to regard the impact of the colleges as less intellectual than social. We therefore turn to the third raison d' etre of higher education...
...this somewhat Veblenesque view of higher learning is accurate, then we must ask ourselves what the impact of the bourgeois is on this bourgeois education women. If the primary function of the college is to turn out executives and technicians and professionals, what is its relevance to women whose closest contact with the marketplace is buying groceries, and who will seldom have to hold any job more challenging than a secretary...