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An Invitation to...
PHYSISCITS
MATHEMATICIANS
AND ENGINEERS
from - M.I.T.

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The Laboratory's staff of over 1000 under the direction of Dr. C. Stark Draper is engaged in the conception and perfection of completely automatic control systems for the flight and guidance of missiles and space vehicles. Its achievements include the Navy Mark 14 Gunsight, the Air Force A-1 Gunsight, Hermetic Integrating Gyros (HIG), and the Ship Inertial Navigation System (SINS). The Laboratory developed basic theory, components and systems for the Air Force THOR and, later, the TITAN missile. Other accomplishments include the Navy's POLARIS Guidance System. 

Recently, the Instrumentation Laboratory was selected by NASA to develop the guidance, navigation system for the moon space craft project, APOLLO.

Research and Development opportunities exist in:

• ANALYSIS OF SYSTEMS AND COMPONENTS
• HIGH PERFORMANCE SERVOMECHANISMS
• POWER SUPPLIES AND MAGNETIC AMPLIFIERS 
• DIGITAL AND ANALOG COMPUTERS
• ELECTRO-MECHANICAL COMPONENTS 
• TRANSITOR CIRCUITRY AND PULSE CIRCUITRY
• REARCH, DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF GYROSCOPE INSTRUMENTS
• COMPUTER PROGRAMMING AND SIMILATOR STUDIES
• OPTICS, ASTRONAUTICS AND MANY OTHER AREAS 

CALL OR WRITE HOWARD F. MILLER, PERSONNEL OFFICER

INSTRUMENTATION LABORATORY 
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
66 ALABANY STREET Bldg. 11R. | CAMBRIDGE 39. MASS.
UNIVERSITY 4-6900. EXT. 3544

• Graduate courses may be taken while earning full pay. 

"An equal opportunity employer" 
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Khrushchev's Ticket 
(Concluded from page 37)

individuals in elected offices may invigorate the Party leadership, and lessen the need to employ the violent techniques by which this was attained in the past, a significant exception adequately provides for the continuation of Khrushchev's own tenure re-election by a three-fourths majority (of the Central Committee) in a secret ballot. In a system where many weeks of press discussion has not produced a single word of meaningful dissent to the draft program, the Party leader is obviously not yet prepared to redeem Lenin's 1919 pledge that the restrictions on political freedom would be lifted in a period of peace and plenty. 

How Do Russians Feel?

It is, of course, impossible to measure the sincerity of the response of the Soviet people to the Party program as it is being presented in the rigidly controlled propaganda media. Certainly their feelings may be expected to run the gamut from apathy and cynicism among the older generation to ardor and zeal among the younger. In a recent Soviet novel, appropriately entitled A Ticket to the Stars, a young man speaks of the Party leaders and their promises in a manner which might well express the sentiments of the majority of those being led to collective happiness and plenty: 

...I've had enough of those high flown phrases. They are used by many splendid idealists like you, but also by many villains. I am certain that Beria used them when he deceived the Party. Now we have learned better and they have to become so much tinsel. Let's do without this hot air. I love my country, and our social order and will give my arm, my leg, or my life for them - but I am responsible only to my own conscience and not to come kind of verbal fetishes. They only stop you from life realistically. 

This young generation, the intended beneficiaries of Khrushchev's economic promises may, indeed, in a way still unforeseen, eventually complete the unwritten political section of his communist manifesto. 

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