Word: chemistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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William Blankenship, a research chemist working in New York City, often thought of moving to the country for his sons' sake, but instead he took a calculated risk: he stayed in The Bronx and tried to do something practical about juvenile delinquency. He became a member of the Bronxwood Community Council, which campaigned for street lights on dark corners, provided recreational equipment for teenagers. Blankenship lost: on a Bronx street his own son was shot to death in cold blood by another youth, a total stranger. "We're whipped," said Bill Blankenship last week. "We've been...
...fiction created by a band of Zwicky's colleagues). Brilliant young Theoretical Physicist Richard Feynman is a master at breaking lock and safe combinations (during World War II, he made the rounds of Los Alamos safes, depositing "Guess who?" notes in them). In his spare time, Nobel Chemist Linus Pauling likes to blast away at the souped-up claims of advertisers (he once completely deflated a popular chlorophyll deodorant by proving that instead of killing a smell, the stuff merely paralyzed the nose). But on matters affecting the institute, individualism melts into unity. On one occasion, a visiting professor...
...preoccupation with immediate, practical results, the U.S. is badly neglecting pure scientific research. The warning was sounded last week by Nobel-Prize-winning Atomic Chemist Glenn T. Seaborg* before a joint meeting in San Francisco of the Atomic Industrial Forum and Stanford's Research Institute. Seaborg's clincher: of the nation's huge ($3 billion) annual outlay for science, "no more than 5% . . . is used for basic research...
...present neglect be corrected? Chemist Seaborg's suggestion: double the outlay for pure science. The resulting increase in scientific knowledge, he believes, would make a bigger basic research program "the greatest bargain the American people ever received...
...Ajemians think they are doing fine if a year's concert fees pay for their transportation, living expenses and special clothes. Says Anahid: "Luckily, we have husbands who make a decent living." But marriage has also complicated their rehearsal problems. Maro is married to an American Oil Co. chemist and lives in California, Anahid to an executive of Columbia Records and lives in Manhattan. The sisters have found a way out of this dilemma. Once they have decided, often via the mails, what works they will play in a coming concert season, each records her interpretation on tape...