Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There has been a dramatic increase in reliance of government on academia as a talent pool. Howard Aiken and Felix Frankfurter were precursors of this increased reliance 35 years ago. Now there is a wide recognition, Bok said, of "how central advanced education is to everything in society." The emphasis on academics in public life means that "professors often have opportunities to work outside the University that did not exist 35 years...
...have not fallen apart and that there are significant improvements here and there, with a true test still ahead as the effects of Nixon's budget and revenue sharing work themselves out. But the President's exaggerated, crisis-ending rhetoric was inevitably reminiscent of Vermont Senator George Aiken's celebrated 1966 advice on how the U.S. could disengage from Viet Nam: declare the war won and pull...
Impressed by the subsequent development of his computer, Professor Aiken said at a testimonial dinner given for him at Harvard in 1961, "I hope to God this will be used for the benefit of mankind and not for its detriment...
Anthony G. Oettinger '51, professor of Applied Mathematics and a former student of Aiken's, yesterday described him as a "great teacher and a hard driver." Oettinger said, "he brought more out people than they ever knew they had in them...
Professor Aiken received his bachelor of science degree from the University of Wisconsin and his masters and doctorate in physics from Harvard University...