Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY: A LIFE STORY, by Carlos Baker. The long-awaited official biography offers the first complete and cohesive account of a gifted, troubled, flamboyant figure who has too often been recollected in fragmentary and partisan memoirs...
...cars, houses and business properties, he had aroused little suspicion. "It wasn't hard to believe he could accumulate all those things," said a friend, "because he was an operating fool. He always had something going." Turner has little going now. Police impounded his modest savings account, then scoured his home and confiscated everything of value, including his wife's typewriter and bowling club treasury...
...food. Kunen discovers the trouble with the liberals as he talks with a jittery student-faculty committee type in July. "He wanted very badly for me to tell him he wasn't incompetent. I didn't. He is incompetent." The same though surfaces even more vividly in Kunen's account of the first night inside Low Library...
...principle that concerns me is academic freedom. The question raised by the leaflet is whether or not an investigator whose purposes are scholarly and who has taken all possible precautions to prevent injury to anyone on account of his research ought to be able to work without interference. In general, the right of an investigator to do research without interference is well established. In social science research, however it can be difficult to distinguish interference and intimidation from expression of ethical and political positions by persons who feel that regardless of the investigator's intention, his results will be harmful...
...been tested together in the vicinity of the moon. There has been no rendezvous in lunar orbit, no testing of the LM's landing radar or of the entire communications system at lunar distances. In addition, NASA scientists are recalculating trajectories and orbital paths to take into account irregularities in the lunar gravitational field that caused Apollo 8 to stray from its course. "We looked at all these things," says Low, "and we decided that we had to fly once more before we take the big step of landing on the moon...