Word: academicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...costly, complex Government require ments that carmakers consider an outrageous cross to bear. "When you think of all the things the industry has to do to get a car on the market, you realize what a gap there is," says Nattress. The words sound more reassuring from an independent academician. Convinced, however, that Detroit is holding out on him about the fuel-efficient car, the car owner asks Paisley why VW and Datsun and Honda get such good mileage and Detroit...
...also running low and has resorted to costly tertiary recovery methods in some of its fields. Solar energy, which Americans hope eventually will ease their energy problems, is not taken seriously by Soviet scientists, who, for the most part, seem not only highly competent but almost aggressively realistic. Explains Academician Alexander Sheindlin, director of the Soviet Union's High Temperature Institute: "The U.S.S.R. is a northern country. We cannot rely on the sun for energy...
...Levich was the highest-ranked Soviet academician ever to ask to leave," Jonathan M. Schenker, an officer of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, said yesterday. The Soviets tried to make Levich a "living example" of what would happen to citizens who applied for emigration, Schenker said...
...vast ponds like those used in the South to grow the plebeian catfish. The Le Carre element enters with Serge Doroshov, 42, who helped develop the advanced Soviet aquacultural, or fish-farming, program; he defected to the U.S. last year and joined the Davis staff. Among other things, Academician Doroshov discovered a way to speed up the sturgeon's maturity cycle, from 15 to 20 years to four to six years. At Davis, internationally renowned for its research into food and wine, officials expect to receive federal money for a $500,000 pilot hatchery...
...academician who did not go into business until he was more than 40. Born in Ulm, Germany, Eckstein fled Hitler in 1938, graduated from Princeton and in 1955 earned his Ph.D. in economics at Harvard, where, as he says in his fast-paced, slightly accented English, "I found a home." He has taught there ever since, except for 18 months in the mid-1960s, when he was a member of Lyndon Johnson's Council of Economic Advisers. (Professor Eckstein's popular course in freshman economics usually draws well over 800 students...