Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case of seven, the tribunal ordered U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold to pay legal fees of $300 each and damages ranging from $6,000 to $40,000 (for an "anthropologist and African specialist" whose field, the tribunal said, was so narrow he would be hard put to find a job elsewhere). The other four Hammarskjold was told to reinstate in their jobs. Ten of the eleven were Americans who had retired behind the Fifth Amendment last year when congressional probers asked them whether they were or had been Communists, and whether they were or ever had been engaged in espionage...
Collector Bartlett's showcase is enough to delight any museum visitor. Planned by Director Robert B. Inverarity, 44, a wartime Navy artist and part-time anthropologist, the museum's building is clean and functional, all on one floor and with plenty of well-lighted exhibition space. There is a comfortable auditorium with a stage and movie screen, a wing of workshops with special looms for reweaving damaged fabrics, photo labs and a microfilm room, a complete research library and special workrooms for visiting scholars. The building is air-conditioned, and when visitors get tired of looking...
...remote south coast of Manus Island, 200 miles from New Guinea, famed Anthropologist Margaret Mead was interrupted in her research last month by an urgent message. The district commissioner had sent a boat to tell her that New York was trying to reach her by telephone. Fearing some emergency, Dr. Mead set off on a seven-hour trip through dangerous reefs and rough seas to take the call. It turned out to be from a researcher working for Manhattan's Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn Inc. The message: "Dr. Mead, we are conducting worldwide research into the smoking habits...
Though Kinsey now lists all 14 members of the institute staff as co-authors of "the female volume," the key men around him are three: Psychologist Wardell B. Pomeroy, 39, and Statistician Clyde E. Martin, 35 (who were credited as co-authors of the male volume), and Anthropologist Paul H. Gebhard, 36. These three, along with Kinsey, are the only men who know the hieroglyphic code used for taking down case histories (on 8½ by 11 in. sheets). From the code-marked sheets, one of Kinsey's three chief lieutenants transfers the data...
...anthropologist spoke before an audience of 1,700 including many leading scientists, engineers, and industrialists at the diamond jubilee gathering of the Case Institute of Technology, whose theme is "The Atomic Age--A Challenge to Free Men." Hooton dissented from the enthusiasm of the scientific reports in saying that the incidental benefits of atomic energy did not balance the destructive power of atomic weapons...