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...publicly support the beleaguered writer, as hundreds have done in the past. Only a dozen brave men could be found to speak up for him in Russia. Among these was Andrei Sakharov, the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb. With a courage commensurate to Solzhenitsyn's, the physicist told a Swiss journalist that "the spiritual and moral impact of the facts revealed in Gulag will be enormous. Only by becoming conscious of the crimes perpetrated in the recent past can we hope to get out of this bloody circle. I am convinced that this work is of capital importance...
Scientists will be kept busy for years studying the accumulated findings - to say nothing of the dramatic observations already reported from space. Astronaut Gibson, a solar physicist by training, managed to photograph for the first time the very beginnings of a solar flare - a sudden, violent release of enormous energy from the sun's interior. Looking earthward, the astronauts observed strange, swirling eddies in warm ocean currents that are apparently involved in the exchange of heat between water and atmosphere, an important factor in global weather and climate...
Blacks as a group consistently score lower than whites on standard IQ tests. That is a fact no one can dispute. But the reason for the discrepancy has become a matter of heated dispute -sparked largely by the widely publicized theories of Psychologist Arthur Jensen and Physicist William Shockley. The two men suggest that genetic factors account for the differences. Others, like University of Pennsylvania Anthropologist Peggy Sanday, insist that the differences are environmental. Last week Sanday buttressed her case by reporting the results of her own study...
...course consists of 20 "lectures," which are printed every Thursday in 258 newspapers, having a combined circulation of 19.5 million. They are written by such prominent "faculty" members as Harvard Historian Oscar Handlin, Yale Economist Henry C. Wallich and M.I.T. Physicist Philip Morrison. The articles are all entitled "America and the Future of Man" (the formal name of the course) and cover history, psychology, sociology, social ethics and political science. In last week's installment, for example, Garrett J. Hardin, professor of human ecology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, reviewed the ethical and social problems...
Brooks has served as dean since 1957. The 58-year-old physicist graduated from Yale in 1937 and received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1940. Brooks left Harvard in 1942 to work fulltime for the war effort as a research associate at the Harvard Underwater Sound Laboratory, a job that ended...