Word: problems
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Worst problem was how to deal with the hot, corrosive, high-pressure fuel, which is fiercely radioactive as it comes from the spherical cell and cannot be handled or even observed except by special, remotely controlled devices. By ingenuity and careful engineering, Dr. Weinberg's staff managed to tame this lethal brew. His report proudly announced that "the reactor cell has been sealed with the circulating pumps running uninterruptedly for 1,600 hours (67 days), a feat which begins to approach the longest uninterrupted runs of any power reactor...
...broadcasters and advertisers crassly commercial, Rogers also found the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission incredibly casual. Beyond its licensing and rulemaking authority, the FCC has "investigatory power fully as great as the Special Committee on Legislative Oversight [which dug into the quiz scandals and the payola problem&]." But when a contestant on the now defunct quiz show, Dotto, charged in a letter to the FCC that the show was fixed, the commission merely wrote to CBS, was satisfied with the statement that the matter was being investigated and the show...
Playwright Levitt has made good use of two strong natural assets: a stormy trial, always a virtual synonym for lively theater, and one of the great mass-horror stories of history. Upon these he has raised, with frequently discernible modern overtones, a large moral problem of guilt. Well acted under Jose Ferrer's uninhibited staging, the play offers an evening that has much in its favor in both theme and treatment. It has both bursts of eloquence and bouts of theater...
Ambition is no problem. An African boy cheerfully slogs hundreds of miles out of the bush to find the nearest primary school. If he reaches secondary school (10% do), he must persuade his poverty-stricken father to help him stay. He may even face a painful ordeal at the hands of the tribal witch doctor to prove his determination. And if he actually gets through college, all his relatives descend on him for support. Yet able Africans endure any hardship to win a university degree, the highest status symbol they can imagine...
...average African nation spends an astonishing 20% of its budget on education. Yet the schools turn out so few qualified graduates that places are going begging in universities. Some Africans argue that school curriculums should be changed ("Why study the industrial revolution when our problem is detribalization?"), along with college admissions standards ("Some of our brightest chemistry students score low in English and are disqualified"). But all agree that thousands more schools are needed. Says Allassane Diop, Guinea's levelheaded Information Minister: "Too many African nations want fancy colleges right away as prestige symbols without preparing students for them...