Word: platt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tinsel Dreams. Considering himself assured of victory, Johnson often seemed carried away by the wonderfulness of it all. In San Bernardino, Calif., he made a sentimental journey to the Platt Building, where he operated an elevator as a boy 39 years ago, but his remarks about Goldwater were decidedly unsentimental. It would be awful, he said, if both Barry and Red China had the atomic bomb at the same time...
Also: Duncan M. Kennedy; Clayton T. Koelb, Jr.; Leslie Lessinger; John M. Lewis; Richard H. Masland; Leonard A. Merewitz; Frederick V. Mulhauser; Carl D. Offner; David F. Phillips; Michael D. Platt; Joe A. Porter; Marc J. Roberts; Edward K. Schmookler; George S. Shapiro; James C. Sherburne; William F. Sibley; Nathaniel B. Smith; Martin C. Spechler; Michael R. Stein; John E. Terrell; Andreas W. Teuber; Stephen N. Thomas; Kenneth L. Tigar; Stephen F. Tobias; Richard Weisskoff; Francis A. Westbrook III; and John C. Wilcox...
...Asseyev jumped from a window of the apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Platt at 369 Harvard St. He was hospitalized until Jan. 15, and after his release was reportedly still under psychiatric care at the University Health Services...
...intellectual colonies like Oak Ridge or Los Alamos, where one man in six has a Ph.D., and out of the faculty communities of the great universities, where all the men and many of the women have advanced degrees." In the common - or uncommon-schools of such centers, says Platt, "whole classes of 130s and 140s may be seen, from kindergarten through high school." Among the results: a 13-year-old studying atomic physics seriously, an eleven-year-old taking college courses, an eight-year-old doing graduate work in mathematics...
...general population, only one person in 300 reaches the 140 level. But if whole communities reach an average of 140," asks Platt, "does one child in 300 reach 180? And one in 2,000 reach 190? If this turns out to be so, we may not have to wait centuries for the next Newton; we may have a dozen within 20 years. The number of 180s getting out of college in the next few years may not be a mere dozen, but hundreds. It could be an explosion of genius such as the world has never seen...