Word: maxed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...financial side of McGovern's operations is in no better shape. The big Democratic moneybags are hostile; even Los Angeles Millionaire Max Palevsky, who contributed some $350,000 to McGovern's primary campaigns, is disenchanted. Of the Eagleton affair, Palevsky says bitterly: "This is a perfect example of that staff. If there is a way to f- up something, they will find it." Henry Kimelman, another major McGovern moneyman (see BUSINESS), is also uneasy. Before the Eagleton matter blew up, he was unhappy at the speed with which the tacticians were spending money...
...brain performs its wizardry. Inside a sprawling complex near Munich, researchers heat ionized gases to temperatures of many millions of degrees in hopes of taming the almost unlimited power of thermonuclear fusion. These varied projects are all being conducted under the auspices of one organization -West Germany's Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, which has led the rebuilding of German science from the rubble of World...
Unique among the world's leading scientific organizations, the Max Planck Society operates 52 separate institutions, all pursuing different lines of basic research. The semiautonomous units range in size from the 1,000-man Plasma Physics Institute, site of the fusion experiments, to the tiny four-man Limnological Institute, which has pioneered the use of rush and reed cultures to purify industrial-waste water. The institutes do no secret research, accept few military or industrial contracts, and can pick their own areas of investigation. Largely government-funded (about 90%), they have experienced little political unrest or "brain drain...
...exists at all. It is successor to the old Kaiser Wilhelm Society, founded in 1911 under the patronage of Germany's last emperor. By the '20s, the original society had attracted a galaxy of scientific stars, including Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg, Otto Hahn, Fritz Haber and Max Planck, whose quantum theory is the cornerstone of modern physics. When the Nazis came to power in the '30s, the society's fortunes sagged. Planck, who was head of the society during those turbulent years, tried to stop the Nazis from interfering with research, but he could not prevent...
...even better known for his lucid scientific commentaries over television during Apollo moon shots. That combination of talents may be highly productive. By using his influence with his fellow scientists as well as promoting greater public understanding for basic scientific research, Lüst could lead the Max Planck Society -and, indeed, all of German science -into new avenues of knowledge...