Word: physicists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...page report was the product of a two-year, $500,000 investigation sponsored by the Air Force and conducted by a team of University of Colorado scientists led by respected Physicist Edward Condon. It had been thoroughly reviewed and then approved by the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. Thus, when the Scientific-Study of Unidentified Flying Objects was finally made public last week, it spoke with authority. Its conclusions all but demolished the idea that earth has been visited by creatures from oth er planets. Despite a few remaining puzzles, there is no evidence, said the report, that UFOs...
...still loyal legions of flying-saucer believers protested indignantly. In Washington, the National Investigations Committee for Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) called a press conference to charge that the study ignored "the vast majority of reliable, unexplained UFO sighting cases." Physicist James McDonald, one of the few reputable scientists who side with the saucer buffs, insisted that the Condon group "wasted an unprecedented opportunity" to make a scientific study of the UFO problem. In UFOs? Yes!, a rambling book published to coincide with the release of the Condon report, a psychologist* who was fired from the Colorado team bitterly attacked his former...
...American Studies, operated by interdepartmental student-Faculty committees. Such centers would provide most of the benefits of a full-fledged department, but would be administratively more agile. We already have several splendid examples of centers at Harvard, and they draw on the resources of all departments. Charles A. Whitney Physicist Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Professor of Astronomy Harvard University
...Secretary of the Air Force, Seamans will succeed Harold Brown, a nuclear physicist...
...expressed outrage and dismay, some from Communist papers around the world. Soviet citizens have learned from foreign radio-much more than from their own news sources-of the rising cries of dissent from their country's intellectuals. The Voice of America, for example, has broadcast full versions of Physicist Andrei Sakharov's extraordinary outline for an East-West detente (which is critical of both U.S. and Soviet current policy) and Major General Pyotr Grigorenko's recent anti-Kremlin statements...