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Melbourne's high-octane curriculum includes M.I.T.'s new high school physics course, the new biology program written last summer by the American Institute of Biological Sciences, and the new math teaching developed at the University of Illinois (TIME, July 25). The school has seven science labs, a greenhouse, an animal house and a 30-booth language lab. Since Brown believes that the "college-bound student should be able to handle four years each of two languages," the school teaches Latin, French, German, Spanish, Russian, and now Chinese. Says Brown: "The secret is to make the curriculum...
Class attendance was generally good, especially in Science and Math courses where many still face hour exams. Hardest hit by pre-Christmas cutting were Humanities and Social Relations lectures...
...open guerrilla warfare in the lush Cochabamba Valley only 140 miles from La Paz. A month ago a Communist-led band descended upon anti-Communists in the town of Cliza and touched off a four-day battle that left 100 dead. On the second day U.S. Ambassador (and former Math Professor) Carl Strom was heckled and stoned during and after a nonpolitical scientific lecture at Cocha-bamba's San Simón University...
...meteorology, and presumably several other branches of science, receive a strong basic education in fundamental mathematics and physics. He felt that American colleges and universities, except for Harvard, do not use this approach, with the result that the Soviets have "far more" physical meteorologists with adequate preparation in basic math and physics than does...
...PRIZE OF ONE, headlined the Washington Post-and so it was when Dr. Donald Glaser, 34, this year's Nobel laureate in physics, married Ruth Louise ("Bonnie") Thompson, 23, a University of California math major. First thrown together in a U.C. radiation lab, where he was testing his liquid hydrogen bubble chamber and she was a part-time programmer for a computer, the Glasers winged off last week toward Stockholm and a honeymoon helped along with $43,627 in Nobel money...