Word: chemist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supported and supplied by many other inedible parts. Generally only the seeds and tubers can be eaten by man. Another trouble with conventional food plants: when they are young, they cover only a little ground. A field of thriving, knee-high corn may delight a farmer, but to a chemist's eye it is shockingly inefficient. It utilizes only a small fraction of the sunlight falling on the field...
...checked somehow, the earth's population will just about double in the next 70 years, says Chemist Jacob Rosin in a new book, The Road to Abundance (McGraw-Hill; $3.50). But Rosin, who is director of research for the Montrose Chemical Co. of Newark, is equally sure that a "chemistic society" can provide food and other necessities for an even larger population. In collaboration with Max Eastman, he tells how he thinks it can be done...
Chemistry can do much better, says Chemist Rosin. He cites a long list of products that it has already taken away from plants: dyes, perfume ingredients, drugs, rubber and fibers. In each case, the synthetic proved not only cheaper but better than the natural product. Plant cells are expert chemists, but they work for the plant rather than for man. Furthermore, they have little operational freedom. Man's chemical factories can work around the clock, turning out just what man wants, not incidental byproducts that may fit his requirements...
...conventional rules. Though it likes its candidates to be Harvardmen and scholars, it apparently cares little about how famous they may be. This week, to succeed James Bryant Conant, now U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, the Harvard Corporation picked a man who could boast even less national fame than Chemist Conant had when he got the job. Harvard's new president, the 28th in a line dating back more than 300 years, is Nathan Marsh Pusey, class of '28, now head of small (800 students) Lawrence College in Appleton...
...wears flashy sports jackets and sharp shoes, and uses the gee-whiz vocabulary of Henry Aldrich. He has also become rich (two Cadillacs, a 32-ft. Chris-Craft and a private plane) by inducing thousands of Americans without skill or talent to take up oil painting. Klein, a graduate chemist, got his training as a patron of the arts by running a garage and working at General Motors, where he bossed 40 men ironing out production bugs for G.M.'s subcontractors. But he longed for something more creative. Recalls Klein: "Gee whiz, it got terrible being stuck there...