Class of '68: 9007 _ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-__-. Bishop new Deain of 1 192 men and IO women Dr. Robert L. Bishop will serve oligopoly. He is co-editor of as Acting Dean of the School of '"Readings in Economies" and accept admission so far Humanities and Social Science, has published widely on economic II replacing Dean John E. Burch- theory in professional journals. m -At least 192 men and 10 women finally by May 1." May 1 is the ard, who will retire in June. After graduating summa cum UN Candidates Standard Reply Date University in have accepted offers to become Professor Bishop is currently laude from Harvard m which many colleges have estab- head of the Department of Eco- 1937, Dr. Bishop was awarded a members of the class of 1968. Ten lished as their date by which can- nomics and Social Science. He Sheldon Traveling Fellowship for l men and one woman have de- didates must reply to offers of will maintain this position while a year in Europe. Following fur- clined the offer. admissions. serving as Acting Dean. Dr. Bi- ther study a.nd service as an in- The remainder of the 1,436 men An error of one to two per cent shop has accepted the appoint- structor and tutor in economies and 70 women offered adminissions in guessing how many of those ment with the understanding that at Harvard he received the A.%L have not yet replied. According admitted decide to attend is not a permanent Dean will be ap- and Ph.D. degrees there in 1942 to Mr. Richard Willard, Admis- unusual. If an excessive number pointed next year. and 1949. sions Office Statistical Analyst, it of people accept, finding suffici- Bishop on policy Ford Fellow is hoped that 858 men and 42 ent housing becomes a problem. Dr. Bishop hopes to return to Since joining the faculty at women will eventually decide to Land grant colleges and state his work in economics as soon SIT, Dr. Bishop has been Visit- become freshmen next year. universities have increased their as possible and said: "I'm in- ing Professor at both Harvard Those admitted must inform MIT capacity an average of 16% over dclined to think that there will be and Brandeis Universities. Dui- of their decision to attend by the past year. The size of the little change in policy (in the ing 1961-62, he was a Ford Foun- May 1. freshman class at MIT will re- School of Humanities and Social dation Faculty Research Fellow. 175 people have been placed on main constant except for a small Science)." Dean Burchard became first Dean Robert L. Bishop the waiting list. "We hape," Mr. increase in the number of coeds Professor Bishop came to MIT Dean of the School of Humanities 1951, and new doctoral programs Willard said, "to let them know by five or six. in 1942. He was appointed As- and Social Science on its estab- were founded in political science f sistant Professor of Economics in lishment as the Institute's fourth (1958), in psychology (1960), in 1946, Associate Professor in 1950, school in 1950. Previously, he had Ilinguistics (1961), and in philoso- and Professor in 1957. He has served as Dean of the Division! phy (1963), in addition to the Kenyon Ambassador'to UN been head of the Department of of Humanities; original doctorate in economics. 0 1 Economics and Social Science During Dean Burchard's ad- From 1940 to 1945, Dean Bur- examines Aftican freedom since 1958. ministration Course XXI was es- chard was on leave of absence Most recently, Professor Bish- tablished in 1955, and now has from MITr and served as chair- By George Russell mass media. Once the label op's work has been in the field nearly a hundred undergraduate rman of some of the 18 divisions His Excellency Burudi Nabwe- "moderate" has been bestowed of game theory as applied to majors. The CeQnter for Interna- of the National Defence Research ra, Kenyan Ambassador to the upon a leader, he fears that it problems of economic bargaining 'tional Studies was founded in Committee and later as Deputy United Nations and the United will be removed. He stops think- Chief of the Office of Field Serv- States, spoke at awn African Free- ing independently, and acts to ilice. He was awarded the Medal dom Day celebration in Kresge preserve the image which for- tfor Merit, the nation's highest Auditorium last Friday. He was elgners have established for him. ¢civilian award, in 1948. sponsored by the Pan-African Much of the blame for this sit- Burehard's service Student's Organization in. fthe uation falls on the western press. Dean Burchard has been a Americas. It sees all leaders as either mod- ttrustee of Mount Holyoke College The traditional purpose of FYee- erate and pro-Western, or ex-. and the Boston Museum of Fine dom Day speeches is to discuss tremist and pro-Eastern. "It has Arts. He has also served abroad the extent to which colonialism never occurred to these people aas an advisor to UNESCO and has been displaced in Africa and that 'we may be just pro-African," Ito the governments of Australia, to make plans for the coming Nabwera added. aFrance and Norway. year. Ambassador Nabwera ex- Foreign advisers ] He was formerly a member-at- pressed the belief that colonial- "We do need to have foreign Ilarge of the American Council of ism was "on the way out" in advisers . . . but we must also Learned Societies and is a Fel- Africa. establish our own independent low of the American Academy of "We must turn our minds to way of ilfe," he stressed. - Arts and Sciences which he another aspect of freedom. We Africans became accustomed to served as Vice President in 1953 must turn the light on ourselves," letting others run their affairs. and as President from 1954 to he emphasized. When anything went wrong, they 1955. Nominal freedom blamed the foreign colonialists. The ambassador proposed to "Now the remnants of this scape- discuss three factors which have goatism are preventing us from Dropping a course? made freedom only nominal in recognizing our own shortcomings many parts of Afrttica. and failures." May 8 last chance First, leaders have become the The African diplomat cited the Vol. 84, No. O10Cambridge, Mass., Wednesday, Apr. 22, 1964 5c prisoners of the labels "moder- vast control which foreigners ex- I May 8 is the last day upon ate" and "extremist" which are ercise over the economic life of which a student may cancel a used extensively by the foreign the continent. As an example, he Core development subject by submitting a Registra- approved by -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~lexplained that in East Africa 90 tion correction card ONper cent of all commerce is-in his Faculty Counselor. Pages 10-13 of this week's the hands of Asians, while Euro- After that day a petition to the The Tech contains two special peans control all banking. Ruling for Forrester supplements, from the Parents' Commuittee on Academic Perform- Weekend Committee and the Destroy the Stronghold By Mark Rockman vention of the digital core me- ance is required. Public Relations Committee, re- "We shall have to destroy the According to Mr. Bruce Leggett, stronghold. We shalt have to take Legal friction among MIT, the mory was ended recently in a $13 spectively. We would like to ex- Radio Corporation of America, million award to MIT in the Unit- Executive Officer to the Commit- press our appreciation to these steps which will not please the tee on Academic Performance. two groups, who furnished all and International Business Ma-- ed States Court of New York. Asians and Europeans and the sys- "The Committee will allow such the copy in those supplements. chines Corporation concerning The history of the memory late cancelations only in the case (Please turn to page 17) Professor Jay W. Forrester's in- tem dates back to 1946, when the ---- -1 ! MIT Digital Computer Laboratory of extenuating circumstances. The was established under the direc- fact. that a student is failing is not tion of Professor Forrester. considered a valid reason for a Olde English decor The Laboratory developed the late cancellation." Whirlwind computer, one of the In general, extenuating circum- first high-speed electronic digital stances are only those which computers. It was intended for could not have been forseen be- 250 couples attend thirtieth Assembly Ball applications to science, engineer- fore May 8, according to Mr. Leg- I - I-I.--, --. gett. Two hundred and fifty couples ing, and experiments for the proc- attended the thirtieth Assembly essing of air defense information. Ball at Walker Memorial last Fri- Memory changes Jacoby will lecture day evening. By 1949 it was apparent that The ball began at 9 p.m. with the internal memory, in which on game probability a champagne reception for honor commands for the complex com- guests in the WaLker 201 Lounge. puter operations are stored, was Mr. Oswald Jacoby, well known President and Mrs. Stratton, and hindering the computer's func- authority an bridge and poker, Provost and Mrs. Townes headed tioning. Relays and electronic will deliver two lectures this week the receiving lines of honor guests tubes had been found too slow in 2-390. in the Trophy Room. or too bulky and lacked the ne- The first, entitled "Basic Prob- The event was touted by Bos- cessary reliability to satisfy, the ability," will be presented today ton newspaper columnists as "the rigorous requirements of the ap- at 4:30 pmr; the other, "Inverse height of the social season at Probability," will be given Fri- MIT." (Please turn to Page 17) day at the same time and place. The evening's entertainment in- cluded three selections by the Dovers of Zeta Beta Tau and clas- Registration material vailable sical guitar by Don Dilworth. Af- ter the grandpromenade the mid- for Summer Session ne Monday night buffet in 50-340 was recorat- ively set in a Camelot courtyard, Registration material for the session in accordance with the fol- where Arthur Best '64 and Roberto 1964 summer session will be avail- lowing schedule: Levis '64 of the MIT fencing team able Monday, April 27, at the In- June 20 ...... Rooms available June 22 ...... Session begins provided a surprise dueL formation Office. Music by Harry Marshard's or- Aug. 28 ...... Classes end chestra began at ten, and dancing The registration forms must be Aug. 31-Sept. 3 ...... Exams continued until three. filled in and returned to the Reg- Sept. 3 ...... Session ends Robert E, Thurber was Chair- istrar's Office, Room 7-142, by Sept. 4 ...... Vacate rooms man of the committee organizing Photo by John Torode Wednesday, May 20.- Applications for undergraduate the Assemblies Ball this year. The summer residence may be ob- committee was advised by Wil: President Julius Adams Stratton offers his wife some liquid Walcott, Bemis, and Goodale tained at the East Campus Office, lUam H. Carlisle Jr. and Robert refreshment at the thirtieth annual Franscis Arnassa Walker will be open for undergraduate Munroe Hall, and must be filed J. Radocchia. - Assemblies Ball. Student is Burns Woodwar '67. residence during the 1964 summer there by Thursday, May 7. . APO group sets record Proiect Arctr.us for upright piano redudcfon ME project created alien planet wb!m I s A. _-MMP-14 -W - -"I I ' ll By Lydi Camt IHeadquarters, a government we met was weighed on a Terra. nian spring scale at one hundred -0 One of-the most publicized of agency. the design projects carried on by MIT writes TEXR eighty-seven pounds (They are relatively strong, however, being; the Mechanical Engineering De. A confidential memo from Mr C,4 able to lift twice their own partmnent was "Project Arcturus," to TECH asks for further infor- weight. ) a prolemn in design devisw by mation about- the newly-discovere' "Their bones are hollow and former Professor of Mechanical Arctrus IV for use in designing apparetly filled with hydre Cr' Engineering John E. Amold. articles to export to that new and heliun. There is no questii The project involved a text of market. The remainder of the file but that these people have evolved "correspondence" and "'reports" contains letters, memoranda and from a race of birds; their a of the Massachusetts Intergalactic research reports, all on 2951 let- pearance- seems to indicate it, Traders, Inc., and the Terran Ex- terheads, telling how exploring their history seems to prove it porting Counsel Headquarters. parties visit'the Methanians at "STheir long arms and clawlike The material related in the "new- their great city, Snafu (popula- hands-three- fgered-are vesfig. ZE zct ly-discovered" Arcturus IV, which tion, 15,500,000), learn their lan- es of once great wings. The only ! LLI had been first surveyed in the guage, study their life and do anomaly is their single-toed feet, I market! research on their needs. LU year 2951. This project was f,,,,ht like those of a horse. This adap i 0-v about 10 years ago. Arcturus IV is the fourth planet tation to ground living evolved i- The information contained in from the sun a Bootis (Arctuus), very rapidly once the power ofE the text had been worked out by thirty-three light years from our flight was lost." The females are Lu Professor Arnold, with the coop solar system. As described in the Us about four feet tall, the males a i :3: eration of the Science Fiction So- files Of. the Massachusetts Inter- foot taller. ciety. When the details had been galactic Traders, Inhe., it is a Their faces are somewhat like e worked out, the material was pre- large planet, 12 milion meters in sented to students of design. The diameter. The acceleration of (Please turn to page 15) l assignment: design. materials gravity at the surface is eleven which could be Waded with the thousand centimeters per second Photos by Bill Bloornmquist residents of Arctunis IV for profit per second. McDowell aids i ro by MIT, Inc. Its distance from a Bootis is Six members of Alpha Phi MIT, Inc., the report says, is 1,800,000,000 miles, and its siderial students, groups I Omega, national service frater- engaged in the manufacture and period is 49.4 Earth-years. The distribution of products for extra- length of day is one hundred in social Service-_ nity, gave an exhibition of mus- solar consumption. This company, fifty-nine Earth-hours, divide in- cular skill at noon last Thursday. and all others like it, operate un- to Gahlos, Bahlos an-d Nahlos. Richard McDowell '60 has been It took them 17 minutes 20 sec- der the rules and regulations of The atnosphere is largely meth- appointed to assist students and the Terran Exporting Counsel ane (indeed, the-name of-the local student organizations for the Of. onds to demolish the piano ly- races translates to Methanian,) fice of the Dean of Student Affairs ing between Building 8 and the and the mean temperatures range in' selecting social service and Green Building. from -50°C in the snummer to community action projects. fijis mark anniveray; -110°C in the winter. Ammonia He assumed responsibility for The group challenged all is tle Arcturian substitute for this work last Wednesday. campus groups to attempt to Celebrate 75th birthday water. McDowell was Assistant to the break the world's record, slight- This weekend the MIT Iota Mu Methannans described Dean of Student Affairs from 1960 Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta will A good description of the M1eth- to 1962, and has since been As ly under four and a half minutes. celebrate the 75th anniversary of anians themselves is found in a sistant to the Director of Admis- The rules specify that a spe- its founding. The Fijis were the report from J. S. Wick, Director sions. cific fragment of the former third fraternity established at old of the Physiological and Psycho- An industrial management maj- Boston Tech when the charter logical Bureau of TECH. "The or as an undergraduate, he is musical instrument pass through was granted in 1889. Methanians weigh very little com- now a special student in political a seven-inch hole. The Fiils were responsible for pared to us. One of the largest science. the founding in 1913 of the pres- ent junior honorary society, Bea- ver Key. '66 class ring riftings this week MIT outing Club More than 100 alumni from all over the country Are expected to Hank Perritt, President of the Class of 1966, announced last week come for the celebrations. Two that fittings for class rings will be today and tomorrow in the lobby Spring Circus trips planned life members of the MIT Corpora- of Buil0ing 10. The MIT Outing Club will sponsor another Spring Circus of trips tion, Marshall B. Dalton '15 and Representatives will be at MIT from 9:30 to 3:45 p.m. or each day. Gilbert M. Roddy '31, will be of several jewelers, Perritt, for members and non-members this weekend. among the graduates attending. After talking with representatives - Those interested in a trip may sign their name on the bulletin The celebrations will be held Rich Savre, Vice-President of the Class, and Ken Browning, Secretary- board in Building 2. in the chapter house at 28 The Treasurer, decided to award this year's ring contract to L. G. Balfour On Saturday there will be a trip to Quincy Quarry for beginning Fenway, home of the Fijis since Company. rockclimbing, led by Shelby Hilderbrand '66. A square dance will fol- 1923. Balfour also was the official jeweler for the Class of 1965. low at 8 p.m. in the Armory. Admission will be $.75. - "-- - --- On Sunday there will be a spring hike up Mt. Monadnock in New Hampshire, led by Hildebrand; a rock climb at Quincy Quarry led by Earl Hamilton '65; a canoe trip on the Charles to Natick Dam, led by Bill Alves '65; and a cycling trip with Wellesley, led by Roland I Graham. There will be a meeting in Room 50-306 featuring slides of outings Monday at 5 p.m. All are invited. Trip leaders may be contacted for further information.
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M ybagieto order a nation- wide mnackdown on violators of the postal lottery and fraud laws. z According to Montague, many of the chain letters involve United m7 States Savigs B ds, Postal Mon- v ey Orders, and cash. He cited re- ports of chain letter schemes at colleges in 'Mississippi, Wisconsin, -( Indiana, and in the New England r- area, among others. Mortague has warned that even o) Photos by Bill Park thogt some of the chain letters ,, Left: Date lounges langorously on escort's lap on 55-mile are not mailed, the schemes still 0- long train trip. Destination: Hampton Beach Casino, New Hamp- may be violations of the postal shire. lottery and fraud laws, since the Above: These three lovely apparitions are "The Angels," proceeds from the chain letters entertaining the Spring Weekend crowd at-the Hampton Beach are tuualli mailed. Casino. The.typical chain letter povides for a monetary item to be sent CD to the name on the top of a list w To star 3 Techmen enclosed with the letter. The first name is then removed and the new participant's name is added USIA shoots film here to the bottom of the list. Copies of the letter are nthen sent to two more people. on role of humanities Montague noted an increase in chain letter activity in college The United States Information Webster said he would appreci- towns across the counitry has Agency is now shooting a film at ate whatever cooperation MIT stu- prompted the crackdown order. MIT on the role The participants, he said, usually I of the humanities dents can give him in the produfc- I 8-0p atInd as a part of the program of MrrIT tion of the film. appear to be college students. students. Directed and produced by Nich- Killian, Harringfon, Spring Weekend successful las Webster, a freelance contract- McCormack or, A successful Spring Weekend in the Great Court during the af- the film will star three MIT to speak on peaceful uses of space was enjoyed by nearly 1800 people ternoon, and the evening events students who will be chosen for their last weekend, reported Ron Gil- went off exactly on schedule. interest in the humanities. Three MIT officials will speak at the same time. The USIA film will be translated man, the Spring Weekend. Commit- The Friday evening event in- at the Fourth National Conference James McCormack, Vice Presi- into 28 languages and shown on the Peaceful dent of MIT, will deliver tee Chairman. volved some complications, how- Uses of Space a closing throughout the world. It will be April 29-30, and May 1, 1964, at statement following a discussion Maynard Ferguson provided ever. Louis Armstrong had orig- one of the most important of this John Hancock Hall in Boston. of "Working for Space" Friday, music for 800 couples at the semi- inally contracted to appear; how- year's output of USIA films, Web- James R. Killian Jr., Chairman May 1, at 9 a.m. formal dance Friday night, and ever, he broke contract for a ster says. of the Corporation, will comment The Conference in cooperation almost the same number rode by promised appearance next year at Webster directed a Bell and on "What the Space Program with NASA, will present "updated train to Hampton Beach for enter- a reduced price. The Platters then Howell "Closeup" called "Walk in Means to the Nation" Wednesday, reports on national goals and ac- tainment planned for the next eve- had been scheduled, but they also My Shoes" which was nominated April 29, at 9:00 a.m. complishments; firsthand reports ning. canceled out. for an Emmy as the best televi- Professor John Harrington, Di- on educational needs and procure- Perfect weather Saturday led to During the last week, the Com- sion show of last year. He has rector, Center for Space Research, ment policies; and thoughtful fore- "amazingly" accurate fulfillment mittee tried to arrange for Brook also served as director of the CBS will chair a discussion of "Mach- casts on the changes ahead for of plans, according to Gilman. Be- Benton. However, the Committee film, "The Thinking Machine," ines in Space" Thursday morning business and society." tween 1400 and 1500 people lis- later felt that he was "unreli- much of which was produced at tened to the Brandywine Singers able," and no entertainment be- MIT. side Maynard Ferguson appeared 'Human Visual System' is topic r that evening. of IEEE speech Samuel Bluestein Co. Nonetheless, Ron Gilman felt to be given by "Complete School Supplies" that the weekend was "very suc- 1964 Prof. Eden this Tuesday at 4 pm TYPEWRITERS cesful." "The Human Visual System" search, will be the speaker. The He expects the event to show a AUTO INS. & PLATES will be the title of the speech to SALES - SERVICE - RENTAL I A STONE'S THROW FROM MIT meeting will begin at 4 p.m. in 1080 Boylston St. 345 Main Street profit although accounting won't be given by Professor Murray Boston Malden At 428 Mass. Ave., Cambridge Room 26-100. 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Last week we noted some of the tracts, on the other hand, are more reas- ., ' problems of the nation's universities in onable in paying indirect costs than are connection with Federal support of sci- grants. In general, contracts are prefer- able to grants from the standpoint of -, ,e 0 entific research. Solutions to these prob- - reimbursements for overhead. lems will not be easy and will demand There are other forms of cost-sharing, though, a!.il L..J-:JL c4 Bill JUGOICKri~~,,~:, vigorous action. Some possible courses which are also inherent in contracts. WI-l Ce of action, as we see them, are given c- Cost-sharing below. in research contracts Many people reading our headline story last week ("MIT- and grants can hardly be justified. It is receives $13 million in patent litigation") were left wondering < Teaching Awards argued that universities will manage just what Professor Forrester's share, if any, would amount to. their government - sponsored research >: At the present time, MIT has several We did not, and still do not, know for sure; but ... more efficiently if they. share the costs. The Crystal Ball < awards for excellence in teaching. These This argument is indefensible in light of , include the Billard Award (first given to 42. There is an Institute rule, I'm told that places the nor.- the universities' immense contributions mal amount at 12 percent. I'll z Prof. Harold E. Edgerton '27), the re- in the past to research in the national guess he'll get at least 50 pera. U, cent MORE than cent Baker Foundation Award (first re- interest. MIT, in particular, has an un- that figure (i.e., over 18 percent of the $13 eived by Prof. Alan J. Lazarus '53), paralleled record for competence in million) when summed over the years. and the Goodwin Medal (first awarded In answer to two conflicting rumors I've heard- handling government research and for 43. Mr. Masterton, Superintendent to Prof. Kenneth R. Wadleigh '43, Dean service to the nation. It makes little of the Alumni Houses, of Student Affairs). However, these will retire after one more academic year. (He'll be missed.) sense for the government to expect MIT 44. The I awards-prestigious and vital as they and other universities to draw money ROTC dance, held experimentally this semester, are-are not now sufficient in number. from non-research activities such as in- will become a regular semi-annual money-raising event next year,: There are built-in incentives for ex- struction in order to perform govern- 45. 1 wouldn't be a 'bit surprised if TSE came out with a- L' cellent research in the universities. A ment research. package trip deal for students interested in seeing the Worlds- - significant-research finding will enhance Full finding of the costs of research Fair next semester. Nothing definite on this yet. a reputation and bring promotions and programs is essential, and Congress Speaking of TSE i n d u s t r y consultantships. Excellent should remove the arbitrary limits on New information has proved a few points in Footnote 40 teaching, however, is often- rewarded reimbursements for overhead costs. MIT (no more non-scheduled airlines for TSE) incorrect. I'm glad tos only by the gratitude of a relatively few must insist, discreetly but firmly, on ade- set the record straight. students-and sometimes, as the recent quate compensation for the services it The change-over-from charter to group flights is effective case of Woodrow W. Sayre at Tufts Uni- performs for the nation in research-lest this summer, but the reason for the change casts NO aspersions versity demonstrates, by the loss of a its equally important function of educa- on the safety statistics for the non-scheduled flights of Flying post when tenure-producing research is tion suffer. Tiger or Caledonia. neglected. In fact, the TSE board was satisfied with both their records Increasing the number of teaching Advisory Panels after careful investigation. They were advised by tble Institute, awards would augment the incentives for Some Federal agencies do not use ad- however, that it miqht be easier to defend their excellent choices of air. [ teaching. Foundations and in- visory panels for the merit rating of the line (if an accident did take place) if their policy were that of X dividuals could probably be persuaded to increasing number of research proposals.- group flights. [ endows funds foZ such awards, if the MIT should, it appears, support the adop- The subsequent decision of the board, including three stu. a awards bore the donor's name, as in the tion of such panels for the agencies not dents and ten administration officials, -will result in an increase [ case of endowed professorships. now having them. of about $80 in costs for trans-Atlantic flights for at least the-g Adequate Financing - -The National Academy of Sciences duration of this summer. - E recently concluded that adopting study In print A perceptive article in the April panels would improve the quality of re- I 1964 issue of Industrial Research points Two items received small play in the national magazines search programs selected for grant or recently. Of especial interest to -MIT students, they are: out that the academic wallet is often contract support. Aside from this obvious pinched by inadequate compensation for The newest application of the laser, according to News. benefit, MIT would benefit from the for- week (March 16), is the laser rifle now being experimentally test. the overhead costs of government-spon- mation of the new panels in that their sored research. ed. Remember those science-fiction stories? members, mostly drawn from universi- The space journal 'Astronautics' recently carried an article The article, written by Raymond J. ties, could represent the universities' Woodrow '36, director of research ad- making a strong implication: "It is difficult to avoid the con- viewpoint on adequate funding of re- elusion that the Air Force is quietly placing additional dipdis ministration at Princeton University, search programs. notes that Congress has set an unreas- in 'orbit." Remember what the astronomers had to say about onably low limit on the government's Guarded Optimism Lincoln Lab's Project West Ford? share of overhead costs connected with Keeping frack' As we noted earlier, Federal support U ~ Lm....zL .... JL-_ __ J, t!_! _; _. research grants-as opposed to con- of scientific research is here to stay. The r ieres now Tne prelictions ald This weeK: tracts. This limit is 20 per cent of direct commitment of public funds to basic re- A win and a loss on A-Ball. Right was the decor specified costs in 1963-64. search has helped bring American sci- in Footnote 34; wrong was the guest list in Footnote 26. This 20 per cent limit on the spon- ence and technology to a position of The Spring Weekend Queen had an "s" in her last name, sor's share of the burden of indirect world leadership. but no "a", so Footnote 31 lost. costs in grant-supported-research means, The problems connected with govern- in effect, that MIT and other universities ment-sponsored research can be solved, accepting Federal grants must pick up and the increasing attention which these ~-- ..- Campus Topics. the tab on a substantial fraction of the problems are receiving will be useful in research costs. Federal research con- reaching solutions. The most reasonable Student Center Comm. plans attitude towards government aid to sci- entific research seems to be guarded op- T~~~_I~~~_~~rvTT"(--JL timism. many aspects of new building
-A rdP- - m- I-~ By Dick Schmalansee lay a decade of thought and re- Welecome to parents As chairman search. - of the Student When financing was secured Vol. LXXXIV No. 1 Apr. 22, 1964 Center Commit- through a government loan, and A welcome is extended to the parents tee of Inscormm, contracts for construction were BOARD OF DIRECTORS of MIT students who are visiting the I head a group signed, the Student Center Com- campus during this weekend. The Par- Chairman ...... Howard M. Brauer '65 which has exist- mittee began working more an ents' Weekend Committee has arranged ed since 1952. immediate "nuts and bolts" prob- Managing Editor ...... John Reinties '66 a lively program for you, and we hope When, on No- lems. The Center will have about Editor ...... Ronald- Frashure '64 you will enjoy it. vember 5, 1962, the Center's arch- 150,000 square feet of floor space, Business Manager ...... Kenneth Browning '66 MIT is a busy-and chaniging institu- itect, Professor Eduardo Catala- each inch of which must be News Editor ...... W...... William Judnick '65 tion, and you will see evidence of its no, presented his plans to the planned firmly and in detail. Features Editor ...... David Vanderwerf '66 rapid physical growth in the many con- community, behind his drawings (Please turn to page 5) Sports Editor ...... Dave Kress '67 struction projects rising around the Photography Editor ...... Stephen Teicher '66 campus. In later visits here, you will - -IP"IC"IPP Ia Entertainment Editor ...... John Montanus '66 find MIT much different in appearance- YOU'LL GET ON TO IT,.. Advertising Manager ...... Michael Weidner '66 and the new construction has already IT JUST' TAKES TIME.. Associate Editor ...... William Byrn '66 given it a new look which you will notice Associate News Editors ...... Allan Green '66 if you have already visited MIT. Esther Glotzhober Associate Sports Editor Ted Trueblood '67 MIT is more than buildings, though, Associate Photography Editors.'.:: George Jelatis '66 John Torode '66 and you will also have an opportunity Controller ...... John Flick '66 Treasurer ...... James Triant '67 to meet some of the faculty who have Circulatian Manager ...... Donald Paul '67 - Associate Features Editor ...... Jeff Trimmer '66 helped' build MIT's reputation as a world i Assistant Treasurer ...... Joseph LaBreche '67 center of science and technology. The Office Manager ...... Timothy Proctor '67 Acting Associate Sports Editor .... Ted Trueblood '67 current issue of The New Yorker des- I cribes some of the pioneering work which Managing Staff ...... Joel Shwimer '67 Editorial Staff ...... Alan Rinsky '64 MIT's surprising faculty is now doing. 4- News Staff ...... Jason Fane '64 Michael Wolf '64, Stephen Katzbers '65 The students here can also be quite Henry Lichstein '65. David F. Nolan '65 I Richard Millman '66, Stuart Orkin '67 surprising-and we hope you will not-be Mark Rockman '67, Harvey Schultz '67 too surprised at seeing your son or Elaine Cravitz daughter's housekeeping habits or Coop bill! Second-class postage paid at Boston, Massachusetts. ean f ai The Tech is published every Wednesday during the To give you more information about college year, except during college vacations, by MIT, a -special four-page section has been The Tech, Room 50-21 , 142 Memorial Drive, Cam- bridge, Massachusetts 02139. Telephones area code added to this week's- issue of The Tech. 617, 876-5855; 876-5856; 864-6900, Extension 2731. Much credit for this section goes to the United States mail subscription rates: $2.75 for one Public Relations Committee and the Par- year, $4.25 for two years. ents' Weekend Committee. Peanuts appears daily and Sunday in the -Boston HeralI -4 Letters to The Tech mI Research discussed who were attracted to their well- it is to Bob's credit that he man- -4 I paying defense - oriented special- aged to have the orchestra adjust m AtAthi{tic hIntir.Association Association officers To the Editor: ties during a temporary robust accordingly. 2 The April 15, 1964, editorial on but now saturated buildup in our The orchestra's performance government sponsored research defenses. reflected the fact that its rehears- in the university sketches sever- Sidney awans, Graduate als were all too few. As the "Footnotes" column in the April al areas of conflict, which include Orchestra defended 15 issue explained, two weeks of m military research versus civilian To the Editor: rehearsal were lost when expect- ) research and comering research Among writers of many student ed cooperation was not forthcom- Z , funds versus maintaining auton- newspaper reviews, there is a ing. C omy. It is crucial to define the temptation to pretend to be pro- In short, we feel that, contrary > problems more exactly as they fessional, nay utassailable. The to the impression conveyed by -< apply to the university and its reviewer of. the Gilbert and Sul- Mona Dickson's review, a good graduates. livan Society's program, writing deal of the success of the Gilbert 1. Basic research as fallout in The Tech of April 15, yielded and Sullivan production is the re- from defense spending. A large, to just such a temptation, it would sult of Bob Goldstein's hard work. if not major portion of the funds seem. In so doing, she abdicated It is to be hoped that in the fu- ~s for basic research in the physical the responsibility of the journalist ture, Miss Dickson will be as sciences and engineering is ob- which demands that expressions scrupulous in collectng informa- tained from defense or space of opinion be presented as such, timr about any performer she cri- agencies whose budgets are - and not as immutable truths. ticizes as she was in the case of in turn- voted by Congress. Under different circumstances, Miss Lubin. Otherwise, she ren- Is it only possible to entice bas- it is conceivable that Miss Dick- ders her views worthlessly slant- ic research funds out of Congress son would have rendered herself ed, even when written in an -; by lumping them with defense liabel to a libel suit in writing authoritative, impersonal style. needs? If ethe present answer is that "The fault can rest solely Harvey Picker, Graduate yes, then part of the research with the conductor." This state- Lewis Morton '66 o plant of the university has an ment reveals ignorance on her Daniel S. Dianmond '65 part, and that is not all. It re- Neal E. Tomnberg, Graduate unhealthy vested interest in ex- even panded defense spending. Correc- veals an unwillingness to Arnold Kramer '66 tives include expanding non - attempt (sic) to obtain informa- George Starkchall '67 defense agencies, such as the tion about the circumstances of Riley Sinder '64 the performance. Had she simply John Dawson '66 National Science Foundation, as inquired among the members of sources of .these funds and edu- Alan Copeland, Graduate the orchestra, she could not have Stephen Grodzinsky '65 catang the public and legislatures what she did without in- over a protracted period to the written William Schick, Graduate need for sustaining certain basic tentionally lying. We, the under- Alan Whitney '66 research on its own merits. signed, having played in the Gil- bert and Sullivan orchestra, find Editor's note: Messrs. Picker, 2. Civilian consumer f a 1 o u t uecessary to disown certain fla- from defense research. While a it Morton. & Company should in grant misconceptions which ap- certain amount of research peared in the review. realize that signed reviews and early warning systems, rockets Bob Goldstein spent two months columns are what they aptly call and nose cones has been trans- training chorus and soloists for "expression of opinion" and not lated into improved civilian com- the April 10 performance. If then "immutable truths." munications, aircraft, and ceram- the chorus was still unable to ex- The writersr should not un- ic ware, it is not possible to say ecute entrances properly, it must chivalrously attempt to shift that this fallout justifies pouring bear much of the blame. It is as- more into the defense tanks so "much of the blame" to the suredly not "a credit to the sing- singers. The most glaring errors that we can spring a few more ers that they managed to come civilian leaks. The nation has they in the orchestra's performance, many unfulfilled needs: housing, in at the right places," for did not do so. When entrances are most observers agree, came dur- j I'(: ... lightweight crew; he is currently transportation and education. A ing the overtures - when the Ron the IM Softball Manager, is with anticipated, a conductor is in a direct assault on these needs - difficult position indeed (sic), and singers were not even in view. EMandle varsity sailing, and was the var- through direct spending in the sity hockey manager. associated technologies.- is re- Vart V - The A.A. Secretary's duties in- quired. If you want sturdy, low- Varsity Vice- ldude keeping minutes of the Ath- income housing, you must experi- Committee considers reserve room president R on letic Association and Executive ment with available materials M a n d 1 e, '65, Committee meetings and acting as and engineering designs, and not and offices for student activities Baltimore, Maryland, has correspondence officer of both expect the answer to come from (Continued from Page 1) volvred in this area. The room active in athletics as fresh- groups. missile systems. will provide the wide variety of _ _ _~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ tech- I 3. Education for changing Previous committees have study facilities that are needed; nology. In order for young people wrestled well with the difficult its 495 seats run the gamut in to prepare themselves education- atmosphere from lounge areas to ally, it is crucial that the govern- problems involved. I have been blessed with an exceptionally able individual cubicles for concertn- ment and educators present a trated study. consensus or plan concerning group with which to continue their fields to be expanded during the work- senior members of the As itsname suggests, the room coming decades. Only a plan committee are Jim Hester, Steve will house reserve books - some which considers the long - term Lipner and Dick Tsien; and jun- 13,000 of them, duplicating and needs of society can provide the ior members are Bill Bymr, Larry extending the reserve facilities I proper orientation for a student Calof and Tom Jones. for all Institute courses. The in acquiring his training. Thus Since the amnouncement of ten- room has been designed so that the proposed cutbacks in defense tative plans for a fifth floor re- it may be converted into addi- spending may. adversely affect serve reading room, the commit-- tional space for activities when certain engineers and technicians tee has been very actively in- needed. ,Firm allocation of office space - IMi amcrig activities is the second of Enjoy the Finest Itelean-Americen Food our immediate tasks. We are and Delicious Pira working primarily with Dean Hol- den and considering the requests for space that -have been made by the various groups. The prob- I maoned lems in this area are at once I ITALIAN-AMERICAN RESTAURANT subtle and massive; luckily there Choice Liquors and Imported eers is enough space that, while some groups may be disappointed, none I OKLiNE STREET, CAMBRIDGE - Tel. EL 4-9569 will be cramped in their new (at Central Square} quarters. 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Weisner finds job at the Library of Caoegress, he 1960, an honor given very few final ope house for freshmen flight-vehicle engineeing this year in the DuPont Room, The second program, o- the change from the frenetice accompanied Alan Lomax, the eigheers - political world of Washington to folklorist, on a tour of villages in ing-Gd.,Zrice, X- at t Dean Wiesner's outside atetvi- morrmw. paring for graduate stu N the calmer academic atmosphere Georgia, Alabama, and North ties have raonged from winning a Course 16 offers three pro- emphasis is placed on of Cambridge a pleasant one. The Carolina, soon to be flooded by place on the Watertown, Mass., grams of study. The epgineering hicles and more on exp. newly appointed Dean of the T'IVA dams. They interviewed Planning Board in 1959 to sotal program is armed at students tr~ projects. . School of Sience served three people about to leave their an- ig off the McCarthy investigat- terested in desrig; it terminates A special honors course. < years as President Kennedy's cestral homes, recording songs ing committee in 1953, when they and stories of the region. dents in both programs i- >_ Special Assistant for Science and demanded that he testify agaist by the department. A < Technology, and is presently a Came to MIT the State Department's choice of number of students of C member of President Johnsb's Adinev and Clement In May, 12, Dr. Wiesner first broadcasting sites for the Voicee ability are invited to pa u Science Advisory Cormmnittee. cane to MIT, to work at the Ra- of America. to attend SFS picnic during their junior year. Z Right now Dean Wiesner is diation Laboratory, which was de- C3 Sience advisor The program requires LU studying the problems of the ad- veloping radar techniques for the During the 1950's he was a .-t Blue Hils May 3 tion of all units and hu ministration of the School of Sci- war effort. In 1944 he was ap- requirem ents for the b ence. He is interested in the cur- pointed Group Leader of Project member of President Eisenhow- The MIT Science Fiction a er's Science Advisory Committee, degree. Each student in riculum development work that Cadillac, which was aimed at de- ciety will hold its annual picnic ors program receives and attended numerous confer- has just been completed in the vising an airborne radar warning at the Blue Hills Sunday, May 3. bachelor's and master's I report of the Committee on Cur- ences on armament and dis- system to save our warships from Dr. Isaac Asimov and Hal Clem- simultaneously at the enc riculum Content Planning, and armament. ent and their families will be the suicide dives of Japanese Ka- fifth year. the plans for the Science Teaching mikase pilots. For his work on An informa club of diting- guests.. LU Center. He hopes to do some this project, President Thuman uished men in the Cambridge Dr. Asimnoa is the author of I teaching himself, perhaps in aoe awarded him the Certificate of popular science and science area grew up around talks of fic- Dutch CleGane F of the new freshman courses. Merit. tion boBks. Hal Clement is a noted Dean Wiesner, who is an Insti- this issu. In 1960 the then Sen 233 Massachusetts A In 1946, Wiesner became a pro- author of science fiction. Opposite Necco tute Professor, is also planning to fessor of communications engi- ator John F. Kennedy began to Members will gather in front return to his research work in the TRowbridge 6-566- neering at MIT. Here he joined a draw on this brain trust for in- of Building 7 to leave the insti- field of communlications science. series of supper seminars, organ- formation for his Presidential tute at 11 am. The picnic willI Quality - Servy Although he considers being dean ized by the late Prof. Norbert Campaign. begin at noon. a full-time job, he has found time Wiener, dealing with the wider I to accept those speaking engage- implications of cybernetics. These ments which seem most likely to were attended by mathemati- be of value from the large num- cians, physicists, electrical engi- ITS TRADE "N'TRAVEL TIME AT YOUR CHEVROLET DEALE- ber that currently inundate his neers, philologists, psychologists, office. biologists, and neurosurgeons. Early interest in science Dean Wiesner was born in De- ELE Director troit and grew up in Dearrbn, Prof. Wiesner became director Michigan, He had an interest in of the Research Laboratory of science and engineering, and, Electronics in 1952, and in 1959 also, in the events of the world was given the alditianal post of around him, social issues, litera- head of the Department of Elec- ture, music. He built radio trans- trical Engineering. Despite his mitters, an automatic scoreboard many outside interests and his in- for his high school gymnasium, volvement in the social and politi- and a private telephone line cal issues of the day, Dr. Wies- which eventually caused an elec- ner's work in communications tric power failure in much of science was sufficient to have Dearborn). him made a member of the Na- Dean Wiesner worked his way I through the University of Michi- gan, majoring in mathematics and electrical engineering. After receiving a BS in 1937, and an MS in 1938, he begau his 21 HARRISON AVE. doctoral studies at the University HA 6-4210 l of Michigan. In 1940 he married (Between Essex & Beech I a math major from Johnstown, SBeets, Boston) I Pennsylvania named Laya Wain- ISLAND & CANTONESE ger, and decided to interrupt his iFOOD EXOTIC DRINKS studies to take the post of chief Authentic Hawaiian Luaus engineer for the Library of Con- Moderate Prices gress in Washington. He did not II a.m.-3 a.m. return to Michigan until 1950 to get his doctorate. Daily & Sunday I--···--·IL·-L-- ---II - · - - - E easli lli s P an
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The trouble be- ond Quarto, preserve it well; but II"The Shakespearean Imagi- agan witfi the publication of the modern productions do not. s em;arM:of* ~ tion" was adapted from a tele- "bad quartos" even before the "Shakepseare's real theater vision series aimed at an audi- playwright's death in 1616. is .. . what we way call the Frlm ence ranging from high School Holland favors the theory that theater in the mind." To the bet- 'Z students to doctoral candidates, these poor editions were sold to m terment of that thealter, Holland C/n '...... - : ..'fi~ '-:,...... """':---...~_ ~:.-f.;~-: from housewives to lawyers. As printers by actors who had been gives a lengthy discussion of such a result, the tone is casual and hired for bit parts and wanted to basic topics as the Elizabefian a witty, but the content is a bit supplement their incomes. To world view, the importance of elementary. support this view, he gives two order and degree, and the appre- 0 ..i :-...... "$>::'/..k,..- The introductory sketch of vers.ons of the opening scene of ciative reading of imagery. This Shakepseare's life contains all Hamlet. The bad quarto version, discussion is, perhaps, j,,__tQfim- - the conventional information and at first sketchy, becomes sudden- by the heterogeneous audience to > all the conventional legends, ly very similar to the authorized which Holland addresses himself, : ::...~:ch:::elo : ?.i:;?i~:~:i!;: :.::::::: spiced with Holland's views on edition when Marcellus comes on but many readers are likely to the anti - Stratfordians, who i'sist stage. ,,0 LCheloes he hob~ find it elementary. 0,. that Shakespeare was too ignor- The appearance of these poor There follows a brief discussion oth i4 degree~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~..:::'.3~:.:: ::.: :.~*- ant to be the real author of the editions prompted a group of of each of 13 of the plays: Mac- degree plays. Holland maintains that.he former friends and colleagues to beth, Romeo and Juliet, The 4-I I of IN was "at least, as well educated publish the First Folio in 1623. Merchant of Venice, Henry IV, as the people who say Shake- This is now the accepted source Part I, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Ispeare Extras an unlettered peas- for most of the plays. Twelfth Night, Othello, Me.asre (0 I ant." - Eitor's license for Measure, King Lear, Antony CD Eliza-ef theater For some reason subsequent and Cleopatra, The Winter's Tale -j The next conventional part of editors chose not to follow the and The Tempest. The discus- books on Shakespeare is the re- Folio. The more sophisticated Re- sions are too brief to be conm- Ice construction. of the Elizabethan storation editors "refined" the plete, but they present several ;heater. Holland goes beyond phy- language and'plots. Neoclassicists of the more important and, sical description to treat the rearranged poor editions accord- frequently neglected aspects of London theater as a form of mass ing to what they felt Shakespeare each play. media comparable to motion pic- must have written. Performance vs. Reading tures. The legend of the unlettered "The Shakespeaean Imagin- "On a popular day, .-.. 16,000 peasant began to be used as an ation"- is not a discussion of pecple or 10 per cent of the whole excuse for improvements of Shakespeare's works. It is, first, cityI could have been in the thea- Shakespeare's style. Perhaps the a useful handbook for many ter. It cost only an English penny most radical editor was Thomas readers second, a refreshing I,to get in, about a twelfth of a Bowdler (of "bowdlerize" notor- piece of writing, and third, a skilled worker's daily wage. It i.ety), who put out a family edi- sounding board for Holland's wasn't, in short, at all like the tion purged of an passages "un- views on how the plans should Imodem theater ... but the mov- fit to be read aloud by a gentle- be performed. iies." man to a company of ladies." Amateur groups, Holland main- I The Elizabethan theater, Hol- Next came the Romnanticists, tains, frequently do better than land points out, was not intended who elevated Shakespeare to the professionals because their acting II to be realistic. Costumes were rank of god. The plays were style is more like the Elizabethan mostly Elizabethan, with an oc- "corrected," because the great- and they are less likely to feel casional toga for a Roman hero, est of all bards could not have obliged to try something new, whose livery might still be Eliza- made such foolish errors. This such as having three actors in bethan. Furthermore, the acting attitude was accompanied by a the part of Hamlet on stage sim- style was more like recitation. deluge of relics worthy the rep- ultaneously. ThereI was one exception: Eliza- utation of a saint For want of a good live per- bethansi liked real gore. Theater in the mind formance, Holland recommends I II For all time In all these periods, Holland listening to one of the profession- I Ben Johnson said that Shake- mnain s, and even in our own al recordings, or simply reading speareII was "not of an age, but day, the chief error has been imaginatively. His book will be a ifor all time." Indeed, says Hol- neglect of Shakepseare's lan- useful, though not invaluable, aid Iland, each age has made him its guage. Modern editions, made to that reading.
(.'I"' ~¢'. ,T4 .. '.':..- g, gr. ."" m.. Wg."..:,f, I , IM., ".Fr msO. Makinog the Scene I~~ ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.X ''-, M. m NEXT WElK F S April 2T, 8:30 .p; m., admission free. IMUSIC S M T W T Trio Flauto -Dolce - perforamance of Nova Ahrte Trio- first-esk strings of 22 23 24 25 Baroque, RncoccD, and Renaissance the BSO present a program of Beeth- Ilusic, ptsying Tecorders, harpishord, o ven, Mozart, and Hindemith, in 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 and bassoon, with Robert White, ten- KIresge Aulitoriun, April 26, 3:00 or; Jordian Hall, April 25, 8:30 p.m-, p.m., tickets $2.00 at the Box office 3 4 5 tickets $1.25 to 3.570. or in the lobby of Building 10. _ ~~THEATRE MIT Concert Jazz Band - (formerly p.m.; -bluegrass concecrt at Z3:00 p.m. LSC Contemporary Series - 'Fififi,' the Techtonians) concert at Kresge, with thle -New Lost City IRamb~ers, Aaril 24, 6:30 and 9:00 p.m., Rooxm APrrl 25, 8:30 p.m., tickets $1.00 at the Mharles River Valley B3oys, and 26-100, ae isslion 60c. the door, free in tfhe lo~by of Build- the 'ilty Bro'hers and Dorn Stovzer; 14qc EntRxainment Series- 'haedra,' ing 10. evening concert at 8:00 Pp. ,m., with wiPth 7oy Perkins and Melin, Mer- DiPloms Recital - Yasuko Tsukramoto. the Georgia Sea Island sirmLgers and curi, April 25, 5:15 7:35, 9:45 p.m., New .England Conservafory, concert dancers. New Lost City BiRamfners, Room 10-250, admission 35c. in Jordan Hall, April 22, 8:30 p.m., Roscoe Hvcomb; tickets .. O)O for the U Classics Series - 'A Night at thie playlng works of Chopin, Mozart,-De- afternon sihows, $2.25 -f0w -the eve- Opera:,' MaTx brothers, April 2S7,8:00, bussy, and ProIxkfieff. Ahdmission ning. Room 26-1W, AiLmission 50c. free. BU Glee Chub - works of Handel.-Dranashop -D I-bsen's 'The Wildc Duck.' 'H.M.S. Pin.afore' - Harvard Gilbert Scdhutz Palestrina, and Lot ,.ti, April AIpril 22-6, *Kresge Little Theatre, ar/: Sullivan Plajyers, Agassiz Ticea- 23, 9:3D p.m. BU nceirt IHlall, 8i6 peformanees eves. 8:30 except Sun. ter, Ajpril 23-25 and April 29-May 2. Commonwealth Ave., adimisssion free. at 2:30; ttol:ts $1.5f in Buiiding 10 Tickets reserved at the Harvard Boston Youth S3'mphony - Jc xdan Hall, ania at the ,BoxOf,fice, ext 2910. !qluare Coup or by calling 864-890. April, 26, 3:00 p.m., ad~ns.sion free New England Conservatory - ,Symph- Gardner Museum - April '25, 2:30 MICEIA&NEOUS ony concert, playing Mahler's 'Das p.m. the Shady Hill Siho >1 sinlgs Drew ,Pearson - LSC leeture, April Lied von der Brde' anl Witlllam Gilbert arid] Wl1ivan, excerlpts fnom 26, '8:00 p.m., Kresge zAmditoriuim; Schuman's ' COreendum', Jordan Pilncess Ida;' April 26, 3:4:00 p.M., topic, ',Bedhind the Scenes with thae Hall, A~pril 23, 8:30 p.m., ad-mission muslc for fiute and piano, vworks by Newv Axlmninistration.' Andmission free. Telemann and Prokofiev; b'olh con- free. Brandeis Folk Festival - Saturday, certs free. Friedman Lecturer - Dr. Philip Mmo- AprUl 26, at -Brandeis University, 'Oaeloquiun Muscuim' - leecture on risoi, Cbmel ,University, on 'Physics Waltham.; chilxdren's concert, 1:00 Haydn and Mozart, BU Reciitall H~aill of Identity,' first lecrture April 28, 4:0O P.m., Little Theatre, Kresge A uditorium. h- Ford Hall Forum - 'Travel to Cuba I Right or Privilege,' presentation by t.Ihree recent college graduates who traveleld- to Cuba in defiance of Sgtate Sophomores - Class of 196 deparTment prohibitions; Jordan~ Hall, April 26. 8:00 p.m. admission free Hayden Gallery - Paintings of E rico Order your official M.i.T. Class Ring Donati, qpent the public week-days 10-5, weekenxLs 1:00 to 5:00. i NEXT WEEK in Lobby Building # 10 .MUSlC 1Music of Brahms - New England Con- Wednesday, April 22 or Thursday, April 23J servatovF, All'll 29, 8:30 p.m., Jort dam Hall p ; m incucldes the clari- net trio, Sonrata in D minor for violin a.ndl piamo, ar*l songs. Admission free. 9:30 A.M. to 3:45 P.M. Diplmna Recital --Douglas Risner, or- gamis', 2ary 1, 8:30 -p.m., King's Chapel, adnission free; program in- $5.00 Deposif cludes music of Each, 'Brahms, Hinde- mith. Gardner Mus m - May 2, 3:00 p.m., L L. G. BALFOUR COMPANY music for clarinet and ,bassoon;,M;y 3, 3:00 p.m., New Eangand Conserva- I tory Tour Ch-orus; both free. You'H both love m I ANNOUN'CING THE OPENING OF THE 7 .~~~~. M.I.T.-Y FOOD SHOP g% ~PedX SLACKS in West Gate West affiliate Mablowitz Market Look expensive yet cost only $598 * Complete Line of Foods * New * Conveniently Located on the M.I.T. Campus I *r Open I I AoM. to 7 P.M. Monday fhru Saturday K! 78075 U'N 4-7777 I 46 __12 I ~r ...... Ir I ~"r ~,U' _L~,, , ,,~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 07
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SW 9 %'wP mIlffwvA F afC wx 'm F 1939 'Wufhering Heights' This year's Spring Festival, ca cert will commemorate the I A contribution of $412.18 to the MIT's biggest annual musical e- 400th anniversary of Shakes- i Kennedy Memorial Library, at vent, will feature works of Verdi, peare's birth with Dvorak's Oth- treated without feeling i -o Harvard, has been made possible and Purcell and music inspired By Gilberto Perez-Guillermo by a drive initiated by Howi e by William Shakespeare. ello Overture,,: performed by the [ ol ii s· ·;: X::··C7..:.:::5 ··---e Lawrence '67 and .Denny Pirotin The opening concert, Saturday, MIT Symphony Orchestra, con- fc : :T ' ' : :RSj s;ut; :; i·;: 5*ss;z : :s·: :: s' z;r ducted by John Corley; 'An Eliz- IK CN *67. May 2, will presenlt the MIT I haven't had a chaace to see aethereal, almost mystical ro. S Lawrence and Pirotin, whose Choral Society, directed by Klaus abethan Suite' for strings and -j four horns, arranged by John Bar- Luis Bunuel's -version of Emily mantic feeling it requires. w campaign consisted of posting Liepmann, in Verdi's 'Requiem.' notices and of door-to- door Assisting will be the Festival so- birolli from music by William Bronte's n ove l;, 'Wuthering From 'Wuthering Heights' to soliciting in the dormitories, sent loists, Helen Boatwright, Eunice Byrd, Giles Farnaby, and John Heights,' but I have heard it is 'The Best Years of Our Lives' 'English i CL a telegram to Mrs. John F. Ken- Alberts, Donald Sullivan and Paul Bull; and Holbornme's a highly personal intterpretation to 'Ben-Hur,'. William Wyler has Ayres and Dances,' played by the nedy expressing sympathy upon Matthen, and the Cambridge Fes- which brings out the surrealist been turning out pompous films F her husband's death. tival Orchestra. Brass Choir, directed by Willis overtones- in the boo]k. William with the same technical compe. z They asked Mrs. Kennedy to The following Saturday, May 9, Traphagan. , a designate a charity to which the at 8:30 pm, the MIT Concert The Festival will conclude on Wyler's version, now aAt the Ken- tence and the, same lack of in. i Corley Sunday, May 10, at 3:00 pm, with more Square, struck me as be- volvement with his material. A money should be contributed. The Ba.nd directed by John = Kennedy Memorial Library was will give the world premiere of a performance of Henry Pur- ing the opposite off what I Wyler film alwrays looks more like her choice. 'Trancendental Expressions,' cell's 'The Fairy Queen' by the uJLU MIT Glee Club, the -Wellesley Col- imagine the Bunuel film to be, a Detroit car than like an ex. [ -I composed for and dedicated to and as I watched it, I couldn't pression of an artist's feelings. the band by Jeronimas Kacins- lege Choir, the Festival soloists, aend the Cambridge Festival Or- help wondering what a master No wonder he is Samuel Gold. _D ell~ers_ D! ow likas,a Lithuanian refugee who LUJ chestra, under the direction of like Bunuel would havee done with wyn's favorite director. I- ... w Sellers now lives in Boston. The same i Klaus Liepmann. All concerts are the material Mr. NWyler has I must confess Federico Felli. LU Deorge C.ScUio in Kresge Auditorium, and tick- treated with such a la I i ni's '81,' (at the Esquire Cinema) i ets are $2.50 and $3.50 each ini ing. Building 10. In a film rendering of 'Wuther- stood a second viewing much bet. Dr. Stangelove ing Heights,' I expectt the crea- ter than I expected, and I think D0Hw I ol To Stop Wontng tion of an uncanny atnriosphere in my previous unfavorable corn. April 26 concert which even the most nmatural emo- ments about the film should be %OmepvaceEtse tions acquire supernal is final performance tones, something like what Carl revised somewhat. I still find it e Jazz Nightly of Nova Arfe Trio Dreyer did, in a different con- a tired effort, unnecessarily re. text, in his great 'Vrampyr.' I petitive and self-indulgent, far The Nova Arte Trio will appear would also expect to' be swept from being the masterpiece it has * Top Entertainment for the last time together at away by the flow of strong emo- been heralded to be. But Gianni MIT's IKresge' Auditorium this tions. On both these ACoknila PiciudesRelease V%Ib Sunday, April 26, at 3: 00 pm. The Wyler film faiis.' Mr. Vyler seems di Venanzo (who photographed "DR. STRANGELOVE" shown daily ' Et VW trio is composed of the principal singularly uninvolved with his 'La Notte') did a beautiful job 9:56 A.M.-11:55 A.M.-1:55 P.M.- 'cello of the its sharp 3:55 P.M.-5:55 P.M.-7:55 P.M.-9:55 P.M. I --iclin, viola, and material, and his Iprofessional of photography, with Extral "THE GREAT TOY ROBBERY" Bcs'on Symphony Orchestra; the competence makes the film's blacks and whites, and the mu. I 172 Cambridge S treetviolist and 'cellist are reportedly coldness all the more apparent. join the Phila- ig Heights,' sic by Nino Rota is perfect. Fel. s Beacon Hill, Boston leaving Boston to Furthermore, 'Wutherir ASTOR PerformancesotPeiorue Parking across street - 30c delphia Symphony. which was made in 1939, appears lini may not have succeeded in - - -n ·----I---- - I·-- --W---- ·- -ar The trio's program for Sunday's somewhat dated now', the plot portraying his alter ego on the h' - --- I ccncert will be a Mozart duo for moving much too falst, without screen with the necessary sub. allowing the necessar3.. time or violin and viola, Beethoven's y time Iorjectivity, but '8'3' r'e m a i n s a Trio Opus 9 no. .3, and Hinde- an involvement on the part of the THE Mff BATON SOCIE work. This feeling is presents mith's String Trio. Tickets for audience. This extra speed ex- deeply felt this final concert are $2.00, on tends to Merle Ober on's lines; often treated in a self-indulgent sale in Building 10 or-at the Box she is all wrong as IKathy any- manner, but it is also channeled THE NOVA ARTE TRIO way, giving the part rnone of the of the New England Conservatory of Music Office, ext. 2910. into some superb sequences (not. in a p'ograrn of q ably his meetings with the cardi- MOZART, BEETHOVEN, & HINDEMITH jDrew Pearson to speak in Kresge nal, his childhood recollections, II his relationship with his wife and Sunday, April 26 3 P.M. Kresge Drew Pearson,- Washington 1932 he started his nationally- mistress), and some good scenes seats $2.00 reserved, newspaper-i reporter and column- appearing column, 'Washington which are tarnished only by the ist, will speak at MIT on Sunday, Merry-Go-Round,' which 'has won on sale in lobby of building 10 or call x2910 repetition. I have never thought I I , several awards for distinguished I I April 26, as guest of the Lecture II and PI 1' ------_ - 1s~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-----I,I Series Committee. His talk, en- jcurnalism. Fellini is a great director, II titled 'Behind the Scenes with the Mr. Pearson is also the author I still don't, but he is certainly WI IBiaa LBAagamRBti n saanaa New Administration,' will- be pre- of a book, 'USA-Second Class III a good one, and '8. i' does not Isented! at 8:00 pm in Kresge Power?', published in 1958, which I discusses the still-current ques- contradict this. iI IIAuditorzarm.I PEOPLE WHO LAUGH,,, Mr. Pearson has been covering tion of the missle gap and the Jules Dassin, a director of WON'T- BLUSH! Washington news since 1929; in developement of space satellites. feeble talents, has been posing _- cp- ps ------· as an artist for-too long already. Iil a11His 'Rififi' (at LSC Contemporary I Series) is to a great extent pla- M.I.T. DRAMASHOP Presents giarized from John Huston's 'The Asphalt Jungle,' which is a much i better film in any event. His I HENRIK IBSEN'S 'Phaedra' (at LSC Entertainment I Series) is simply ludicrous. "'THE WILD DUCK"" I Directed by JOSEPH EVERINGHAM I LITTLE THEATRE, KRESGE AUDITORIUM I JOHN MI~LLS,, f mmM -L-, i-~t Wednesday, April 22 through Saturday, April 25 i at 8:30 P.M. i Special Parents' Weekend Matinee on Sunday, April 26 at 2: 30 P.M. All Tickets $1.50 - Reservations Ext. 2910 11'A --~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~