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Like 5,974 other gifted high school youngsters on 105 U.S. campuses, these teen-agers are going to college this summer. They are the guests of the National Science Foundation, under its new program for stimulating wider and deeper interest in science. The colleges provide the labs and teachers, with the foundation's financial support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Summer Scholars | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...days later, the House Space Committee released testimony on the even wider possibilities suggested by Project Argus-the series of bombs exploded late last summer 300 miles above the South Atlantic that sent a shell of charged particles racing round the world. A nuclear bomb exploded over the Indian Ocean, Pentagon officials told the committee, could theoretically disrupt radio communications in Moscow, some 7,000 miles away. Similarly, a blast set off high over the tip of South America could interfere with communications in the Washington area. But to make such interference effective, bombs much larger than Project Argus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bombs on High | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

That cooled the crisis, but not Morris, who seized the opportunity to bring his painting to the attention of a wider audience. "I'm sick of what passes for art," he explains. "I'm for beat, beat like a drum. I'm for action. There isn't anybody moving in painting. Like they're all shot. I'm starting a new school-action expressionism. The action signifies the beat behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Beatnik Crisis | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...their efflorescence in Utah's Zion and throughout the United States. The analogy with the Jewish people is drawn several times and points of comparison are emphasized. Nelson demonstrates that the Mormons have successfully preserved two identities--the ethnic-religious one of the Latter-day Saints, and the wider one of participation in American culture...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: Adams House Journal of the Social Sciences | 5/22/1959 | See Source »

...pattern of victory was nearly the same in every race. Crimson crews usually gained two or three seats on their thirty stroke racing start and then continued to lead all the way, slowly opening a wider and wider gap between itself and the crews fighting closely for second place. The only exception was in the lightweight freshmen's race, where Dart- mouth finished a mere deck length behind the faltering Crimson shell...

Author: By Michael Churchill, | Title: Crimson Crews Sweep Six Races As Heavyweights Set New Record | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

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