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...Leave Us Alone." A little over a month ago, one group of Cuban exiles got hold of a plane in Costa Rica, devised a scheme to pick up a load of bombs in Guatemala, then fly on to Cuba to blow up two strategic petroleum refineries on the outskirts of Havana. But the U.S. embassy in Costa Rica got wind of the operation and squashed the idea before it could get off the ground...
...plane incorporates a high percentage of foreign components, including its twin Rolls-Royce Dart RDa. 10/1 engines. In their desire to sell the YS 11 as a latter-day replacement for the workhorse DC-3, its designers sacrificed both speed (295 m.p.h.) and range (380 miles with a full load of 60 passengers) in order to cut the plane's normal take-off run to as little as 3,000 ft. Trouble is that by December 1963, when the first YS 11 production model is scheduled for completion, the skies may well be swarming with competition from short-range...
Rinker well knows that English teaching can be impossibly hard. The "normal" high school teaching load is 125 to 150 pupils a day. If a teacher assigns 125 pupils one 500-word essay a week, allowing 15 minutes apiece to correct them, he faces more than 30 hours of extra work. (One result is that some teachers assign no essays, and high schools are graduating students who never wrote a single composition in four years.) Nonetheless, Rinker thinks that the deeper problem is simply incompetence; few teachers, for example, read enough, and many cannot write with style and clarity...
Your story on the fabulous moondoggle is possibly one of the most painful expositions of screeching insanity ever seen in print. At a time when our crushing load of taxation is stifling our industry, blocking our social progress and bringing joy to our enemies, an endless torrent of taxpayers' dollars is being recklessly poured into an open-end inverted rathole...
Bucking Big Science. One way to take the pressure off universities is to take the load of big research projects off the universities proper. At hand is a convenient device: the great research centers, mostly war-bred and usually off-campus, which universities run under contract to federal agencies. They include California's Los Alamos, Livermore and Lawrence Radiation Laboratories; M.I.T.'s Lincoln and Servomechanisms Laboratories; Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Chicago's Argonne National Laboratory...