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Dean Fred W. Ajax of Georgia Tech was so harassed that he hardly had time to eat lunch. "I have personnel men from seven companies out here today interviewing students for jobs," he said, "and I have an average of three companies coming every day for the next three months. This is absolutely a sellers' market for engineers --any kind of engineers."

A year ago, neither Dean Ajax nor any other engineering dean was being harassed that way. Engineers were momentarily a glut on the market. But now, M.I.T. found that every one of its prospective February graduates had at least one job lined up. CalTech had 404 requests in two weeks. Illinois Tech blinked to find that it was getting recruiting visits from top company executives. Some of them were offering $125 a week.

President Lee DuBridge of CalTech expects the shortage to get worse. One reason: last year's talk of a glut discouraged many would-be engineers from enrolling. "We miss those boys," says President DuBridge, "and we'll miss them much more as rearmament industries start crying for even more & more engineers."

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