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...Fossil Science. The welcome signals reflected from the wire belt were almost drowned out by new protests from radio astronomers. "The experiment is not useful." said Dr. David Heeschen, director of the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Observatory. "It may have a long-range effect on radio astronomy." Said Dr. Harold Weaver, director of the University of California's Hat Creek Observatory: "We object. We may be a fossil science barely after we've been born...
Died. Barnum Brown, 89, curator emeritus of fossil reptiles at the American Museum of Natural History, a spirited scientist who spent a lifetime gathering more relics of extinct prehistoric monster life than any man before him. thereby earning the honorific title "Father of the Dinosaurs"; following a stroke; in Manhattan. Though he was known primarily as a paleontologist, one of Brown's most important works was the authentication of a group of stone arrowheads found in New Mexico that proved man has inhabited North America for 20,000 years, not merely 2,000 as scientists once believed...
...conflicting views of the critics indicate disagreement on Coon's interpretation of the fossil material, and also the depth of the emotional response of any individual, even of an objective scientist, to a book of this kind...
...colleagues. Yet as a boy in Lincoln, Neb., he seriously considered becoming a poet. He got his love of language from his father, a little-known Shakespearean actor. His passion for science was roused by roaming the plains of western Nebraska, one of the world's finest Tertiary fossil beds. But anthropology alone seemed too narrow a field to his roaming mind, and he also studied biology and sociology in trying to understand the nature of man. After graduating from the University of Nebraska, Eiseley taught his special brand of anthropology at various universities and for twelve years...
...political life Senator Harry Byrd has been guided by a few simple and unchanging maxims about business and government. Today he is an intellectual fossil. His retirement will be a blessing because he gives some small measure of dignity to ideas whose only relevance to the U.S.'s pressing domestic problems is to obstruct their solution...