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search contracts in the Graduate School. His office does not process grants which a KU faculty member may obtain directly from private sources, nor funds obtained and disbursed through the Research Foundation, Endowment Association or Center for Research in Engineering Sciences.
Also not included in Dr. Argersinger's report are the two Carnegie grants for the gifted student program at KU and the Costa Rica program, and some special grants by the U.S. Public Health Service.
During the 1959-60 fiscal year, the Graduate School received notice of the award of 123 grants, contracts or supplementary or renewal awards for periods of several months to five years. Of these, 48 were for the support of new research projects.
The term "research" may be misleading here, since a listing of the individual projects reveals that the University is becoming increasingly laced into state, national and international community life.
Projects of state and national significance can hardly be separated. For example, E. R. Elbel, professor of physical education, received two 2-year grants from the U.S. Public Health Service to study the health and physiques of college students, and Dr. H. G. Whittington, psychiatrist at the Student Health Service, received a new research grant from the same agency to study the effectiveness of the mental health program for these same students.
One of the significant grants in the field of education was the $79,327 awarded Agnes Brady, professor of Romance languages, to conduct a Summer Institute for Elementary School Teachers of Spanish and German under provisions of the National Defense Education Act.
This particular grant, and many in the scientific fields, has international implications, but perhaps the outstanding one of the 1959-60 fiscal year in this regard was the five-year $210,000 grant awarded to Raymond C. Moore, Summerfield distinguished professor of geology.
With this money, Dr. Moore leads a large international team of scientists, and he expects with this support to complete his monumental "Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology."
The worldwide scope of many of the projects is illustrated by the summer or future locations of some of the researchers.
Howard A. Matzke, associate professor of anatomy, went to the Belgian Congo, witnessed the birth of the Republic of Congo, and was forced to transfer his efforts, if possible, to Uganda.
Three professors and their assistants will be on the Antarctic continent Edward J. Zeller, associate professor of geology; Rufus Thompson, professor of botany, and Kenneth B. Armitage, assistant professor of zoology.
International work is not always in the fields of science, the report indicates.
Tuesday, August 2.1960
For example, George Ivask, associate professor of German and Russian, is in Paris this summer with a professor from the University of Indiana collecting material and interviewing the rapidly thinning ranks of Russian emigres to study Russian "Acmeism."
Dr. Argersinger wrote in his report, "In a small way their project resembles the well-publicized 'Oral History' program at Columbia University."
The relative contribution made by the U.S. Office of Education increased greatly, and that of the Department of Defense decreased slightly, he said.
A "significant and encouraging" increase in support by foundations and associations was noted, but "on the other hand, the University receives distressingly little direct support for research from private or industrial sources."
Lockheed to Alter Electra Planes
BURBANK, Calif. — (UPI) Lockheed aircraft will bring every one of its 134 prop-jet Electra airliners back to the factory to eliminate a "bug" that caused two fatal crashes.
The modifications at Lockheed's plant here will cost almost $25 million dollars. Lockheed vice president M. C. Haddon said the firm will "assume a major share of specific improvement costs."
Haddon said the first improved Electra would be ready for Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) tests and certification by Nov. 1. All the big planes operated by 13 airlines were scheduled to be fixed by the middle of next year.
The aircraft have been flying at reduced speeds since a Northwest Electra crashed near Tell City, Ind., March 17 killing all 63 aboard. Subsequent investigation disclosed a structural weakness that could cause a wing to fail under freakish circumstances.
The fatal "bug" that doomed the Northwest plane, as well as a Braniff Electra with 34 aboard near Buffalo, Tex., last September, was a weakness in the mounts that held the outboard engines in their nacelles.
Curtis-Leigh Combine To Enter New Field
HOLLYWOOD — (UPI) — Actor Tony Curtis and his wife Janet Leigh plan to build a country club in Palm Springs.
Curtis said he and his wife purchased the 38-unit Desert Skies Hotel for $600,000 and planned to spend $1.5 million to remodel it. Their plans also call for leasing of 40 acres of land next to the hotel, he said.
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HOLLYWOOD — (UPI) — Don Ameche, credited by the nation's comedians with inventing the telephone, is making his first movie in 13 years.
Fabled 'Telephone Inventor' To Make Return to Movies
For old times sake, or some other reason, the man who played Alexander Bell again is portraying a character named Alexander.
Warner Brothers Studios, which is producing Amchec's new film, "A Fever in the Blood," refuses to divulge whether Don has any scenes with a telephone. Maybe it's a good thing.
Still handsome, and without a gray hair in his head, Ameche plays U.S. Senator Alexander Simon in a story of political intrigue.
To age him for the role makeup men used gray dye at his temples.
"Because the part is good and the picture is first-rate I decided to return to Hollywood," said Don, who
now makes his home in New York City.
Don moved east in 1950 when New York was the center of television activity. It had been some three years since he starred in a nifty little picture titled "Slightly French" with Dorothy Lamour.
"I moved because what little was offered me in pictures didn't measure up to the things I wanted to do," he said.
"Meanwhile I've kept busy in television and the theater. But I was never fortunate enough to be a part of a successful TV series."
He has no explanation for his tumble from one of the big box-office attractions of the 40s to an absentee in the 50s.
"There doesn't seem to be any reason for those things," he offered. "I certainly was available."
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Fourth Polaris Fails, Is Destroyed
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. —(UPI)
—A Polaris ballistic missile launched yesterday from a nuclear submarine in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean was blown up less than a minute after firing.
The mishap was the first failure in four submerged launchings from the U.S.S. George Washington about 30 miles off the tip of Cape Canaveral.
The bottle-shaped rocket spurred from a tube in the sub's deck and it's solid-fueled engines ignited.
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