Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many other covers on which McConaughy reported: Adlai Stevenson, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, McCarthy Committee Lawyer Ray Jenkins, Georgia's Senator Walter George. Last year, weeks before the historic Senate battle on civil rights legislation reached its climax, Jim McConaughy laid down clearly and accurately the complex strategic and tactical lines, furnished the reporting on a cover about Georgia's Senator Richard Russell. Just six weeks ago he traveled to California, reported that Democrat Pat Brown would lead Republican Bill Knowland by 600,000 votes in the pivotal gubernatorial primary. McConaughy was off-by a fraction...
...larger concern of the unhurried professorial report is not the pursuit of scientific or economic security for the U.S. -it is, in the title phrase, "the pursuit of excellence." Through the study runs the conviction that the complex, highly organized U.S. society is demanding too little of its citizens, and that individuals of high capability are stifled. The authors warn that "a continuing tension between the needs of the organization and the integrity of the person . . . may well be one of the most fateful struggles in our future...
Educate Everybody. The report describes the other jaw of the paradox-that although a necessarily complex society often breeds mediocrity, it desperately needs brilliant performance. The U.S.'s need of top-level scientists and highly skilled teachers is obvious now, the authors note. The only occupation for which the need can be counted on not to increase is that of the unskilled laborer, who will be replaced, to some extent at least, by self-tended machines. The schools and colleges must train more people-the U.S. population is expected to grow 55 million by 1975-and, the report warns...
...cell was built with the help of Manhattan Designer Will Burtin, longtime art consultant for Upjohn and amateur scientist. The exhibit (cost: about $75,000) was already in demand for future showings. Its complex biochemistry, representing the consensus of several leading cytologists, was too deep for most visiting physicians and probably understood only by other cytologists. But its ingenuity was vastly admired. One elderly physician stood in awe of the huge cell for a while, then said in a dry Missouri twang: "It'll never work...
Viruses are known to cause many animal tumors, have been shown to be bafflingly versatile-both infectious and noninfectious in turn, depending upon a variety of complex technical factors. Stanley noted many oddities about viruses: man has coursing through his body many kinds that were unknown a few years ago; they can mutate to new strains that cause different disease symptoms...