Word: berkner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they can lure the lesser stars and brighter students that ultimately bring in whole industries. That idea is now getting urgent attention across the country. New research centers are being studied or built in Boston, Chicago and Detroit, in California, Florida, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Virginia and Wisconsin. Physicist Berkner's center in Dallas is off to a $25 million start as a "mecca for men of science and technology." By 1975, it aims to have 1,000 researchers working with Southwestern universities to breed 2,000 Ph.D.s yearly...
Some U.S. scientists, too, have voiced misgivings about what one of them called the "frantic, costly and disastrous pace" of NASA's push toward the moon. Physicist Lloyd V. Berkner, former chairman of the National Academy of Sciences space science board, has warned against reducing the space race "to the spectacle of an athletic contest." Many scientists would prefer to see the U.S. explore space primarily with unmanned probes, incomparably less costly than manned space shots...
Ballet in Orbit. Another scientific faction, typified by Lloyd Berkner, former chairman of the Space Science Board of the National Academy of Sciences, deplores the race-with-Russia aspect of the space program but yearns for the moon just the same. "Human society," says Berkner, "rises out of its lethargy to new levels of productivity only under the stimulus of deeply inspiring and commonly appreciated goals. In the conquest of space, men, ideas and materials are pushed beyond previous limits and capabilities. The seemingly impossible is brought within the range of daily employment...
...distance at which graphic differences become apparent, Leet feels, has been overlooked by scientists who are engaged in detection research for the U.S. government. Because these scientists, who worked on the Berkner Panel and the Air Force's Project Vela Uniform, reasoned that moving their stations closer to the suspicious seismic events would enhance chances of detection, Leet feels "they have missed the forest for the trees...
...received something of a political education recently. "The forces that I now realize are operating here are financially powerful. $24,000,000 worth of contracts were awarded to seismology in one year; but not to seismologists...I think I know who is responsible for the composition of the Berkner panel. I know the background and the corporate entanglements. But my personal certainty isn't proof. I'm still digging...