Word: developers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...importance than the ideas fed into them. As projects grew and machines multiplied, "the ideal of the great original scientist [gave] way largely to that of the scientific administrator who is more concerned to parcel out his effort and to keep his machines, staff and ideas busy than to develop his concepts...
Less happily, what is best in all this has been pretty fully conveyed by the end of a brilliant, dynamic first act. Indeed, the first act's very power of assault gives to what follows a diminished impact. But what follows has also too little organic development. The play never really advances from a kind of one-man show to any kind of social drama. To be sure, a negativist, no-exit attitude that shies away from moral crisis cannot develop very far; while at the same time so much overt anger must shut the door on irony. Having...
...University will not shut down, no matter how many cases of Asian Flu develop," Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth, Director of University Health Services, stated yesterday. He said that 66 flu patients were being cared for in Stillman, 25 in the Union infirmary, and about 65 in their rooms or at home...
...these days, science may come to the rescue. Geneticist Manuel Gordon of Michigan State University has succeeded in partially controlling the sex of unborn rabbits. His system depends on the fact that when a mammalian ovum is fertilized, the sex of the individual into which it will develop is determined by the sperm that does the fertilizing. Half the sperm cells have X chromosomes, which produce females. The other half have Y chromosomes, which produce males. So a way to start to control sex might be to separate the sperm cells into X and Y fractions before insemination...
...elevator to take him directly to his fifth-floor suite, he keeps tab on every well. Besides Ohio, Wyoming and Texas, Benedum's wildcatters are exploring 750,000 acres in Colombia, also have 450,000 acres in Guatemala, and are dickering with a French oil company to help develop 3,000,000 acres along Africa's Ivory Coast. Says old Mike: "There's no country in the world of any magnitude that does not have some oil. We have only begun to find the oil that's available in the world...