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...ofily big Western European country that can feed itself-but its industries are underpopulated. Only 16% of its people hold industrial jobs, compared with 22% in Britain and 23% in Germany. Because farmers are low taxpayers, industry has to carry too heavy a share of the tax load, and this year the rates on profits, after dividends, were boosted from 34% to 50%. As a result, French industrial companies earn scarcely 2.3% on sales, compared with 3.4% in Germany, 3.6% in Britain and Italy, 6.1% in the Benelux countries, 7.4% in the U.S.-and low profits discourage industrial expansion...
Then, in 1950, Tsien took off for Shanghai to "visit his parents." Federal agents picked him up on a China-bound ship with 1,800 Ibs. of rocketry research. After a long series of deportation hearings, the Government admitted that there was nothing "secret" in Tsien's load but claimed that he had been a Communist Party member since the 1930s. After Tsien was sentenced to deportation as a Communist, the Government had second thoughts. It argued that he possessed valuable knowledge that, if carried abroad, would be "inimical to the best interests of the U.S." So he remained...
These risks are virtually abolished if the surface veins are extinguished, leaving all the blood to return through the deep internal veins, which can easily carry the added load in most cases. The same result, say European phlebologists, can be attained for most patients by injections that sclerose (harden) the veins, and close them...
...smart kids do not make it, something must be wrong with the teaching. To help freshmen adjust to the competition, Caltech now issues only "pass" or "fail" grades the first year. M.I.T., tired of the student refrain that "Tech is hell," has similarly loosened its freshman and sophomore course load, broken up its long-standard curriculum. "In the past, if a fellow was too short we stretched him, and if he was too long we shrank him-now we try to mold the system around the class," says Physics Professor George Valley...
...second year and is widely regarded by the Harvard Faculty as a test case for the pass-fail concept. Under the current program, a student can take one of his five courses every year on an ungraded pass-fail basis. The new plan would reduce the Princeton course load to four in the first three years and three in the senior year...