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The article focuses on the comparison between Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) and California Institute of Technology (Caltech). M.I.T. president Howard Wesley Johnson asserts that M.I.T. emphasize science applications than pure science and that the entire school of Caltech is smaller than their electrical-engineering department. Caltech president Lee A. DuBridge notes that he is optimistic that Caltech will continue a nonindustrial setting of informality and intimacy.

The article reports on the efforts of scientist in the U.S. rising to the challenge regarding physicist Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. It states that Einstein's theory explains gravity and the behavior of the universe on the grounds of relative motion. It mentions that Harvard University physicists have measured the minute frequency change taking place in gamma rays which upheld the gravity-caused shifts predicted by Einstein.

The article mentions the anniversary of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which has been in business for 100 years.

The article focuses on the investigation by the U.S. government concerning unidentified flying objects(UFO) sightings and incidents in the country. The Air Force sponsored the investigation and was conducted by a group of University of Colorado scientists led by physicist Edward Condon. As approved by the National Academy of Sciences, the findings have demolished the notion that the earth has been visited by creatures from other planets.

The article offers information on the scientific study made by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory headed by physicist Irwin Shapiro to test the validity of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity. The team, using Haystack radar antenna, observed signals and orbits of Mercury and Earth during their shifted movement from the sun last week. Test results ended with the theory's still uncertainty.

The article focuses on the proposed solution of Russian scientists to control hail by firing antiaircraft shells into hail-producing clouds. It states that radar will be used to detect the cloud as soon as it starts to develop hailstones and iodides will be delivered to it within three minutes. It highlights that a 1965 trial resulted to 3.1% decrease in crop loss from hail in protected areas.

The article discusses the electronic bird watching in the U.S. in 1961. It states that the secrets of bird migration can be unraveled by electronics using the equipment called radar, which was used since World War II to track man-made flying machines. It also notes that Cambridge University's Dr. I.C.T. Nisbet and Dr. R. R. Richardson teamed up with Ornithologist W. H. Drury Jr. of the Massachusetts Audubon Society to study the aspects of radar bird watching.

The article offers information on an experiment by physicist Roger M. Gallet and professor Henry G. Booker involving the bending of radar signals beams. The experiment revealed that the skies were full of radar pipes, clusters of electrons, used to bounce radar signals. Furthermore, it offers details on the experiment and mentions several practical applications of their theory, including the study of solar eruptions, long-range missile surveillance, and jam-proof, long-distance communications.