Word: goddarde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people as ruthlessly as they did minerals. Yet they could also be uncommonly generous, and before they exhausted their funds and energies, they set new standards for imaginative philanthropy. A list of their legacies includes the Guggenheim fellowships, Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum, and foundations that helped finance Robert Goddard's pioneering rocket research and the Leakey family's exploration into the origins...
Robert Jastrow is director of NASA 's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and author of Until the Sun Dies. Computers play a daily role in his work and influence his vision of the future. Here, for TIME, he looks ahead to a new relationship between computers and people...
...talk about Jesus Christ because science had pretty well told us that it was impossible to believe in God and the Bible." An increasing number of scientists would now appear to agree with the almost Pascalian argument of Astronomer Robert Jastrow, founder and director of NASA'S Goddard Institute. Since it is impossible to prove whether life on earth was created by the will of some supreme £ creative being, or evolved spontaneously, says Jastrow, the choice either way is "an act of faith." Even among highly secular folk there is a general disposition to assume, as never before, that...
Another teach-in on nuclear power and the world arms race will begin at Tufts at 7:30 p.m. in Goddard Chapel. Speakers at this teach-in will include Sidney Lens and Harvey Wasserman. The teach-in will include workshops on Saturday in Eaton Hall at Tufts; topics for the small groups are disarmament strategy, military conversion, nuclear power and health hazards, and the economic aspects of President Carter's energy plan and solar and wind power...
...Died. Goddard Lieberson, 66, a musician who became the immensely successful president of Columbia Records; of cancer; in Manhattan. English-born, Lieberson started out to be a Composer, but instead went to work for Columbia in 1939, quickly gaining a reputation as a trend spotter and a man who could work with musicians. He was an early promoter of the LP and of original cast albums of shows like South Pacific and My Fair Lady; he had talked CBS into backing Lady. In developing the Columbia Masterworks series of classical music, he included contemporary composers: Prokofiev, Schönberg, Bart...