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...Mouse, says Professor Singer, will be modest. He thinks that if five Mice are built, they should cost $1,000,000 each, which is less than the cost of a B-47 ($2,500,000). For this sum, U.S. scientists will get precious information beyond the capacities of present-day rockets...
...mentality of the scientists themselves, who can hardly lose sight of the enormous preponderance of unpublicized pipe-dreams. Since all the more romantic advance of science are found in retrospect to have been impeded by forces of malice and darkness, it is perhaps not surprising to see some present-day pessimists accused as traitors or, at best, as imbeciles. One consequence may well be a trend towards blind sponsorship of space-trips and death ray machines on the part of job-conscious government scientists. Harold P. Furth '51 Research Assistant, Cyclotron Laboratory
Once, though few of the present-day passengers would believe it, the tortugas ran on a fast, split-second schedule; but that was the era of spit-and-polish British management, and it did not last long. The revolutions of 1914-18 came along, and rival generals commandeered the cars for use as troop transports, armored units or mobile-gun platforms. The equipment came out of the wars beat up and battle-scarred. By that time, buslines, paralleling the trolley routes, were cutting profits so drastically that the private owners of the trolley system could not afford to replace worn...
What most present-day detractors of the food don't realize is that although they may occasionally bite into something resembling a spike, the present dining hall system is paradise itself compared to the perpetual state of anarchy that existed prior to 1929--when a Yale man stepped in and gave the University its first organized food system...
Kenneth Lipstreu makes a living designing layouts for advertisements, paints in his spare time. His Transformer applies Picasso's cubist experiments of 40-odd years ago to the present-day industrial scene. Perhaps because it sticks to an established tradition of abstraction, his picture is much easier to take, and also to forget, than Motherwell...