Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard to avoid a melodramatic tone in recounting this story. Professor L. Don Leet thinks that the great detection dispute which separated American and Soviet negotiators in January, 1949 (and has kept them apart since), was based on scientifically invalid information. The man who has been in charge of the University seismograph station since 1931 is convinced that the Berkner panel report which insisted that the U.S. raise its inspection demands just when treaty plans had been settled, was simply dead wrong...
Last week Raytheon Co. announced a "command receiver," also irreverently called "the missile whistle," designed to avoid any possibility of such a mistake. Slightly bigger than three packs of cards, the missile whistle contains five electronic filters that make it deaf to everything except a combination of five different radio waves transmitted simultaneously on narrow frequency bands. The most complex electronic babble sounds like silence to a missile equipped with this gadget, but when the five-part signal comes, it picks it out of the racket and obeys its command. The five frequencies can be varied, giving millions of combinations...
...urban renewers have come under heavy fire for displacing people who had nowhere to go, tearing down neighborhoods that could have been saved. Now they are trying to avoid both faults. New York and Boston are using "selective redevelopment'' aimed at sprucing up old neighborhoods-such as Boston's historic North End-without heavy demolition and rebuilding. In many cities local citizens' committees are consulted at every step of redevelopment. Says Chicago's Mayor Daley: "You can't just rebuild a city physically without looking into the needs and wants of the people." When...
...avoid these misconceptions about science, and arouse new public support for basic research? Piel sees this matter again as a question of communication -- this time, between scientists and laymen...
...rest on a moral judgment of Hitler and the "Nazi idea." It is not easy to accept such a challenge; for there can be no compromise in a democrat's mind with the Nazi regime as it operated within Germany between 1933 and 1945. And it is difficult to avoid extending one's critique of that regime to its performance in the field of foreign relations, and to count Hitler guilty of diplomatic sins just as one condemns his domestic excesses...