Features:
The Sponsorship
of Basic Research
The search for new technology is often best approached by indirection.
by Arthur Laufer
Can Excellence
Be Managed?
No. It can, however, easily be aborted.
by Harold Brown
On Meeting an
Old Friend, Slightly the Worse for Wear, After a Lapse of Two and a Half Years.
by Ronald F. Scott
Girding for
the Next Decade in Engineering
Meet the new chairman of Caltech's engineering division. All he wants to do
is make Caltech the Mecca for the great engineers and applied scientists of
the world.
Research Notes
Old data, new answers. Galactic explosions. Recoating the mirror. Faster solar
observing.
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