Re: Hair color and IQ/stevens ship

"PSmith9626" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Dear Bruce,
> Here is story about that ship.
>
> When I was in high school, a friend of mine went to a summer institute for
math
> prodigies at Stevens. ( I decided to stay home and read more of Goursat's
> "Course d' Analysis--which turned out to be the better choice). I decided
to
> visit him.
>
> After I got of the path trains--Hobken looked like a post nuclear
> holocast--burned out buildings ect, roaming gangs of toughs.
> I started to climb the hill to the engineering university.
>
> I suddenly realized that it reminded me of a standard science fiction
movie
> from the 1950's --all that was missing was the starship being loaded with
> supplies for the escape of the descendents of the uni people.
>
> Then I saw it--being loaded with supplies via a crane--an ocean liner with
a
> giant integral sign painted on its main stack.

LOL. From my perspective, it sounds like the students escaped thoroughly,
and the next generation has little idea of the home planet. My father has
more to fear from roaming alligators on the golf course than the pathetic
offspring of unrelieved poverty. I don't know if I've ever even been to
Hoboken (or Newark, or other famous parts of NJ).

However, I do recall, from my childhood, a similarly depressing place. We
were on a trip, driving along a highway. I think it was in the NYC area
(Bronx?). I noticed buildings that looked like they'd been through a war,
with partially collapsed sections, lots of missing windows, etc. It was more
interesting than depressing until I noticed that the "bombed out" buildings
were occupied! At that point, I just hoped we didn't have to stop (or slow
down much) in that area. Unfortunately, I didn't see any Ship of Scholars,
so I guess not many escaped.