Word: discovereres
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¶At California's Vandenberg Air Force Base, the Air Force launched Discoverer V, putting a ton of hardware into orbit, including the 1,700-lb. second-stage rocket and a 300-lb. instrument package-a new record for U.S. satellite payloads (but still far behind Russia's...
Columbia's slim, publicity-shy Robert Frederick Loeb (pronounced Lerb), 64, Bard professor of medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, one of the nation's top medical teachers. Son of famed Physiologist Jacques Loeb, discoverer of artificial parthenogenesis, Robert Loeb left the University of Chicago after...
¶Columbia's Dickinson W. Richards, 1956 prizewinner for his work in cardiology: "Every scientist suffers when there is any restriction, at any level, to the free exchange of knowledge. Except insofar as restrictions are required by the exigencies of national defense, we believe that there should be no...
The man-making, man-eating industry began in 1859 when Edwin L. Drake, a sickly, bearded failure of a man in a stovepipe hat, brought in the nation's first commercial oil well near Titusville, Pa. Though Discoverer Drake wound up virtually penniless and forgotten, his find opened the...
The end of the search disappointed many Norwegians, who felt that the U.S. had not given it a proper try. "I don't understand it," said a Norwegian helicopter pilot. "We could have continued the search for days. I told the Americans that it is naturally difficult to find...