Word: buffalo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impressions, King Zahir, on a 15-day state visit, rushed busily between polo and field-hockey matches, a horse show, small-game shooting, a glider flight. A slated highlight of Zahir's trip: a tiger hunt, for which his striped target, previously located and fattened on goats and buffalo meat, unwarily awaited the King's bullet. Alighting at Palam Airport, Cabot Lodge was greeted as a long-lost friend by his oldtime U.N. wrangling foe, V. K. Krishna Menon, now India's Defense Minister. Asked by a cameraman to keep talking with Menon, Lodge quipped...
...Bishop Christopher Weldon of Springfield, Mass, and Auxiliary Bishop Leo Smith of Buffalo...
...from the beginning," says Walter Dornberger, now technical assistant to the president of Bell Aircraft in Buffalo, "was to reach infinite space." But if Wernher von Braun had any notions about the German army's spending millions to achieve his dream of space exploration, they were quickly dispelled. Germany wanted weapons, period. The Budget Bureau would not even permit Kummersdorf to buy office equipment, and Von Braun learned early in the game the techniques of flimflamming the bureaucrats, e.g., it was a rare budget official who realized that Kummersdorf's request for funds to buy an "appliance...
...your Jan. 20 issue, a University of Buffalo physics professor tells a sad story of approximately 60% student failure in the physics courses, and blames it on "permitting woolly-brained educationists to impose their peculiarly distorted concept of the meaning of education on our school system." The answer may simply be poor instruction, or perhaps Professor "Pancho" Bobie's [Jan. 13] school of misguided thought that almost anyone can teach if he has sense, character and a basic knowledge of history, science, languages and literature...
Chairman Lyle Phillips could well use some competent "woolly-brained" physicists to analyze the methods used by his physics department. Looking at the pathetic pupil achievement in these courses at the University of Buffalo causes me to ask: When will university physics and math departments take a good long look at how to teach science...