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...Everett Mendelsohn sounds as though he's more concerned with the social ramifications of sciences than with nitty gritty experimentation, that's because...
...while the press corps was playing "getting used to Reagan" and Carter was falling to the lowest rating in Gallup's 40 years of measuring presidential popularity, FORTUNE published "Why Carter Will Probably Win," by Everett Carll Ladd of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. Ladd (who hasn't changed his mind since, even after Billy Carter) concludes from his samplings that 1980 is shaping up as a "competence election," a question on which he says "Reagan's weakness with the electorate matches Carter's." Having failed to persuade the great middle of the electorate...
...Republican Party in those days was not entirely speechless either. Connoisseurs of the genre remember the sublimely fogbound organ tones of Illinois' Everett McKinley Dirksen. In his early career, writes Biographer Neil MacNeil, Dirksen "bellowed his speeches in a mongrel mix of grand opera and hog calling." Over the years, he developed a style of infinitely subtle fustian, whose effect can still be remotely approximated by sipping twelve-year-old bourbon, straight, while reading Dickens aloud, in a sort of sepulchral purr. Would he criticize an erring colleague? someone would ask. "I shall invoke upon him every condign imprecation...
...ethics of scientific research are a problem, Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science, said, because it is unclear to whom scientists are accountable for their work...
Waiting in the inclement weather--40 degrees and a fierce wind--for the races to conclude, John Everett, a judge of the race and a 1976 U.S. Olympic crewman, said, "I can see why crew never made it as a money sport...