Word: garwin
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...tried to duplicate Weber's experiment (in which he measured tiny deformations in two large aluminum cylinders); but none of these efforts has been successful. Now still another negative report has been filed. Using a detector at least as sensitive as Weber's equipment, IBM Physicists Richard Garwin and James Levine write in Physical Review Letters, they were unable to pick up any signal that could reasonably be called a gravity wave. The IBM researchers were not surprised...
...Advisory Committee or a Defense Department advisory committee, but are not a full-time participant. Even for such people, it's still regarded as bad taste to engage in public debate. Some of the younger people do testify before Congress, and they've been criticized for doing so. Dick Garwin (adjunct professor of Physics, Columbia University) was criticized for his SST testimony because it opposed the Administration's position. There is a general view that, if you're going to be part of the Administration, you shouldn't simultaneously attack its posture. I believe that, if you join an Administration...
...Government's predilection to do as much as possible in secrecy also affects domestic issues of fairly direct concern to the taxpayer. Environmentalists opposed to development of the SST, for example, have had difficulty gaining access to the so-called Garwin report, which is critical of the supersonic transport; the Justice Department claims that the report is a "presidential document" and thus not subject to forced release. Preparation of a national inventory on industrial wastes discharged into public waterways was blocked for seven years by the Budget Bureau under terms of a 1942 law designed to protect business from...